#Pathological fear of guns how to#

IntroductionĮvery year over 600,000 teenagers are treated in emergency rooms for assault-related injuries and 20–40% of school age children are bullied on school property.

We recommend that youth violence prevention and intervention programs address the impact of family, peers, and gun violence on student coping and identify students with low social self-control who could benefit from social and emotional skills training. Subjective expectations of engagement in future interpersonal violence were associated with being male, having friends in gangs, and fear of neighborhood gun violence. Among girls, having gang affiliated family members was positively associated with aggression, whereas among boys having friends in gangs was associated with past week aggression. Results from Poisson and logistic regression models showed that direct exposure to gun violence, having friends in gangs, and low social self control were all positively associated with past week aggression. We need to keep our eyes on America’s unhinged gun culture.Using cross-sectional data collected from three middle schools in Southeast Los Angeles, we assessed the association of neighborhood violence exposure, gang associations, and social self-control with past week aggression in a sample of minority youth ( ). Obama is the black face of their resentment, and their disrespect towards him is palpable. The militia movement and white supremacist groups used the election of the first black president as a recruiting tool, while the NRA and arms manufacturers waged a campaign to boost both membership and gun and ammunition sales by scaring people into thinking the black president would take away their guns. And then he took several of his mother’s guns to shoot little girls and boys to death.īut if President Obama dares to discuss the pathological crisis of guns when people are killed by guns - as he is entitled as the leader of the nation - the gun rights extremists want to change the subject.

#Pathological fear of guns how to#

She reportedly taught her son, who shot her to death, how to shoot. Harper and her son should remind you of Adam Lanza, 20, the Sandy Hook shooter, whose survivalist mother Nancy was obsessed with guns and stockpiled food as she prepared for the end of the world. Harper took her son, with whom she shared an apartment before he killed nine people and himself, to an unsupervised shooting range where they could just fire away. “No one will be ‘dropping’ by my house uninvited without acknowledgement.” And the ARs & AKs all have loaded mags,” she wrote in an online forum. Harper had an AR-15, and AK-47, a Glock, and semiautomatic rifles, and police recovered 14 guns. It’s mental health in America.” And Atkinson’s mother, Bonnie Schaan, said “our children should be able to protect themselves somehow” and that her daughter should have had a gun.įinally, saving the best - or worst - for last, Laurel Harper, the mother of the dead Oregon gunman, Chris Harper Mercer, stockpiled weapons because she feared stricter gun control laws. “Look where the problem really lies, and quit running the agenda - quit running the gun agenda,” Atkinson said. Jessy Atkinson, the brother of Cheyenne Fitzgerald - one of the teens who was injured in the shooting and is recovering in the hospital - told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that President Obama should focus on mental health and stop pushing his “gun agenda.” “Douglas County strongly supports the right of the people to keep and bear arms as stated in the Constitutions of the United States of America, and Oregon … and vigorously opposes any state or federal law that unfairly and unconstitutionally restricts these rights,” the resolution read.

Meanwhile, as The Trace reported, five weeks before the Umpqua massacre, the Douglas County commission, headquartered in Roseburg, passed a resolution condemning the Oregon state government for the new law expanding background checks.