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ELECTION PRIMER: Bill Whittle's 'Number One With A Bullet'

To get you ready for the 2016 presidential election, TruthRevolt begins today a section called "Election Primer," in which every few days we reprise some of Bill Whittle's excellent "Firewall" video commentary. Pundit Whittle, of course, is a longtime viewer favorite at TruthRevolt.

The U.S. has, by far, the highest per capita gun ownership in the world. Progressives will tell you that this is what makes America the Murder Capitol of Planet Earth. But we're not, and in this devastatingly effective "Firewall" segment, Whittle shows why Gun Nut Nation is in fact one of the safest places in the world.

TRANSCRIPT:

Hi everybody. I’m Bill Whittle and this is the Firewall.

Every time there is a shooting in America, our moral betters on the left immediately ammo up the assault rifle of their rhetorical arsenal: namely, our country’s sick, twisted obsession with personal firearms; our adolescent, psychosexual, dangerous and frankly embarrassing when facing our European film critic friends AMERICAN GUN CULTURE.

Hopping over to the ever-reliable Wikipedia, for example, we discover that when it comes to per capita gun ownership, the USA does in fact top the list: when measured as the number of guns per 100 residents, the US comes in first, at ninety! NINETY guns per one hundred residents: evidence for the Progressives on the left that they do in fact live in the murder capitol of the world; because when it comes to gun ownership, America IS number one with a bullet, with by far the highest per capita gun ownership in the world – 90 guns per 100 people being half again more than the number two spot held by Serbia, with 58.2.

Now all we have to do to prove the left-wing Progressive weenie case for banning guns is to do is a quick search for the per capita MURDER rate… and sure enough, leading the number two country by about half again more with 90 murders per 100,000 people is… Honduras.

Socialist, gun-controlled Honduras. Because even though America has by far the highest per capita gun ownership rate, we don’t have the highest per capita murder rate. And unfortunately for the Progressive leftist argument, we’re not second either. Or third.

When it comes to per capita murders, Team USA didn’t even make the top five.

As a matter of fact, we didn’t even make the top ten.

Or the top twenty. Or the top thirty. Or the top forty. We’re not in the top fifty per capita murders. Gun Culture America is not in the top sixty nations in terms of per capita murders. Or the top seventy. Or the top eighty. Or the top ninety.

Of the 218 nations and territories listed for per capita murders, the United States of America – murderville – did not break the top one hundred. We are, with 4.7 murders per 100,000 people in 2012, number 111.

111th place puts near top of the bottom half of all of the nations and territories in the world when it comes to total per capita murders… and virtually all – if not all -- of those nations ranked higher than us are big-state socialist utopias with stringent gun control laws.

How tragically disappointing that must be for our moral superiors.

And unfortunately for the left, it gets worse. Because 111th place America’s murder rate of 4.7 per 100,000 citizens is artificially much higher than it should be, because it includes so many deadly, murderous, toxic places… like number one on the list of highly gun controlled, Democratically-governed-since-the-stone-age murder pits like Detroit Michigan.

Detroit, with strict gun control laws has a per capita murder rate of 54.6 murders per 100,000 citizens. If Detroit were its own country, it would just beat Venezuela for SECOND as the most murderous country in the world, behind Honduras.

America’s 111th place, 4.7 murder per 100,000 people also includes, in order, Democratically governed, heavily gun controlled New Orleans, with 53.2 murders per hundred thousand; St. Louis, with 35.5; Baltimore with 34.9; Newark, 34.4; Oakland, 31.8; followed by Stockton 23.7; Kansas City 22.6, Philadelphia 21.5, Cleveland 21.3, Memphis 20.2, Atlanta 19.0 and Chicago, with 18.5 murders per 100,000 per year.

America’s per capita average of 4.7 murders includes all of these high-crime areas. The first city to appear in Gun-Mad Texas is Dallas, which isn’t in the top twenty. America’s overall average of 4.7 is as low as it is because of places like Plano, Texas – the last city on the list – with a murder rate of 0.4. Having been to Plano Texas several times, I can tell you with confidence that virtually every home in Plano Texas has an entire arsenal of Ar-15 assault rifles, semi-automatic shotguns, 30.06 hunting rifles, .45’s, .357s, 38s, 9mms, an assortment .22s for the kids to practice with, not to mention every species of bowie knife, hunting knife, jack knife, bayonet, switchblade pointy rocks and sharp sticks.

The per capita murder rate in Gun Nut Central is 0.4 per 100,000: if the United States of America, as a nation, had the same murder rate as Plano Texas, we would not but 111 out of 218; we’d be 211 out of 218 – well below Switzerland at 0.6, HALF of Germany, Spain and Denmark at 0.8, and well, well below half of New Zealand, the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, France and Australia. If all of America had the murder rate of the gun-nut capital of Gun Culture USA – Plano, Texas – then America’s per capita murder rate would be ONE QUARTER of those murderous, violent, rampaging, death-worshipping Belgians with their horrific 1.6 murders per hundred thousand.

Maybe it’s not the guns. Maybe it’s the people holding the guns.

We now return you to your regularly-scheduled programming.

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Michelle Obama Pushes for Mental Health Evaluations as Backdoor Gun Control

Michelle Obama has come out swinging in support of her husband’s views on seeking treatment for mental health issues. The woman, who has decimated our children’s school lunches, reducing them to unattractive mush in the name of “promoting healthy eating habits,” relayed to Newseum on Wednesday that Barack Obama strongly believed that receiving treatment for mental health disorders was a “sign of strength,” not weakness. Of course, it was just another way to promote Obamacare and its benefits in light of the upcoming Supreme Court challenge.

According to CNSnews.com:

“It’s time to tell everyone who’s dealing with a mental health issue that they’re not alone, and that getting support and treatment isn’t a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of strength,” said Mrs. Obama. “That’s something that my husband believes strongly as president, because in this country when you’re fighting an illness whether that’s mental or physical you should be able to get the help you need, end of story.”

“That’s why the Affordable Care Act expands mental health and substance abuse benefits and parity protections for roughly 60 million Americans, and it requires new plans to cover things like depression screening for adults and behavioral assessments for kids,” she said.

If you have a mental illness, you should be able to get the help you need, end of story. It sounds an awfully lot like, “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan, period.” Everyone knows how that has turned out since the implementation of Obamacare.

The low-information voter listening to this first part of Moochie’s little spiel will be taken in to seek help for even the slightest case of “the blahs” only to be diagnosed with depression, sent home with pharmaceuticals and tagged in the system as having a “mental illness.” With Obamacare “requesting” doctors to ask patients about guns, the American Psychiatric Association inventing new mental health disorders every week, and Obama avidly pursuing elements of “gun control” leading to confiscation, it isn’t hard to connect the dots to see that Moochie is pandering for an agenda – Obamacare recipients, their families, and others to seek “help” for mental health and substance abuse in order to gain a backdoor to gun control.

Doctors will now be doing “depression screening” for adults and “behavioral assessments” for children under the guise of improving America’s mental health status. Normal childhood behavior, in many cases, has been diagnosed as some “mental health” disorder or attention deficit resulting in children being overly medicated. It has been almost the same with adults.

Just recently, I went to see my physician for a possible sinus infection. My sciatica and arthritis also happened to be acting up that day causing some additional severe pain. The first thing my doctor said was “You look like you’re depressed.” He immediately assumed a problem without asking based on my facial expression. Luckily, I didn’t have the “blahs” that day.

The sponsor of the event featuring Mrs. Obama as a speaker, Give An Hour, held this summit to launch their new “movement,” “Campaign to Change Direction.” This “movement has developed a network of 7,000 mental health providers, who offer pro-bono services to veterans, service members, their families, and friends urging all Americans to learn signs that someone might be in emotional distress.” It sounds eerily like the “see something, say something” campaign for federal employees to spy on each other and report possible “subversive” activities.

Of course, Moochie’s promotion of seeking services for mental health illness is perfectly altruistic. She and Obama want mental health illness to be viewed and treated the same way as a physical illness. What better way to promote that than to offer it for “free.”

“There should be absolutely no stigma around mental health. None. Zero,” Mrs. Obama said.

She indicated it was time to “flip the script” on mental health in the United States, claiming it was not just a policy or budget issue, but a cultural one.

“Every year, one in five adults or more than 40 million Americans experience a diagnosis of a mental condition like depression or anxiety, and our young people are affected at similar rates ….”

“This shouldn’t be surprising to any of us, because let’s face it, life can be stressful,” she added. “Folks are faced with all kinds of challenges …. Then you add social, psychological and genetic factors on top of all that, and sometimes it’s just too much,” she said.

There is not one individual who has not experienced some form of anxiety or depression. In fact, some types of anxiety or anxiousness is not negative, but positive. No one can say they have not experienced some form of depression or extreme sadness upon the death of a loved one, family member or animal they loved. These are normal situational emotions that resolve over time. Going through the five stages of grief is normal where you experience denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Visiting your doctor when you are in any stage but acceptance could be risky these days.

Under Obama, the number of unemployed individuals has increased with some giving up on even finding a job and having to go on government assistance. How many individuals are unemployed right now in this country who are feeling a sense of “loss” and “helplessness” because they cannot support their families or themselves? Probably quite a few. These are normal emotional responses to life situations, but it doesn’t mean someone needs mental health treatment.

To hear Moochie talk, the slightest little deviation from being “happy” is cause for seeking mental health services.

It has been reported that the American Psychiatric Association has added new “mental health” diagnoses to the DSM – 5, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, to include patriotic behaviors and exercising unalienable rights.

As far as the children are concerned, “behavioral assessments” could mean more unnecessary medicating of our children and nipping their rights to gun ownership in the bud early. If parents don’t agree, they could be hit with some sort of “mental health” diagnosis or charge of neglect.

One can’t help but see the irony of the “First Lady” of the United States pandering for every American adult and child to seek “mental health” or “behavioral” assessments, having family and friends become “monitors” of mental health along with everyone else, and getting “treatment” when her husband has some of the most troubling mental disorders – mythomania (pathological, chronic lying), narcissistic personality disorder, anti-social personality disorder and being a psychopath. If seeking treatment for mental health disorders is “a sign of strength,” Obama should go first for his assessment so he can receive treatment for his many mental health illnesses. Of course, Obama doesn’t have to go for an assessment or evaluation of his mental health. All of his disorders are prominently on display for all the public to see.

The point is everyone experiences what can be termed as “situational depression” or “situational anxiety,” including a physical illness or ailment that causes an emotional response. These are temporary and not deserving of any “mental health” evaluation or treatment. When the situation or physical illness is resolved, these normal emotional responses abate. These are a far cry from what can be termed “clinical depression” or “clinical anxiety” that may require some form of intervention. And, the APA is vastly designating an increasing the number of “normal” behaviors as mental health disorders.

But, to hear Moochie talk, the least little burp warrants an assessment; and, that is exactly what will happen and is happening under the bureaucratic panel guidelines for Obamacare, giving a back door into gun control and possibly confiscation because of a “mental health illness.” If the goal was to de-stigmatize mental illness and its treatment, it actually has had the opposite effect: preventing individuals from seeking help because of the threat of eradicating many unalienable rights.

Suzanne Hamner (pen name) is a registered nurse, grandmother of 4, and a political independent residing in the state of Georgia, who is trying to mobilize the Christian community in her area to stand up and speak out against tyrannical government, invasion by totalitarian political systems masquerading as religion and get back to the basics of education.

Courtesy of Freedom Outpost.

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The New Sneaky Tactic Gun Control Advocates Are Embracing

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The New Sneaky Tactic Gun Control Advocates Are Embracing

Gun control advocates are changing strategy.

If you can’t get legislation infringing upon the Second Amendment with President Obama sitting in the White House and Harry Reid, D-Nev., running the Senate, the chances of getting much done under the new Republican-controlled Congress is next to nil.

Add to that the fact that the majority of pro-gun control candidates who ran in the 2014 mid-term elections, including Rep. Ron Barber, D-Ariz., who was one of the people wounded in the 2011 incident involving the shooting of then Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, lost.

So, taking a page from the same-sex marriage movement, gun control advocates are now embracing this strategy: what you can’t get done at the federal level, try to get done state by state.

John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, explained to the New York Times that when advocates of same-sex marriage fought their battle at the federal level, they ended up with the opposite of what they wanted: the Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage as being between a man and a woman was passed.  So, what to do?   Feinblatt:  “Then they went to the states and showed that if you can get the majority of the public on your side state by state, that will influence the courts and Congress in the end.”

Now, I take issue with Feinblatt’s statement that “the majority of the public” in individual states supports same-sex marriage. Just consider that in the 34 states that have put it on the ballot, voters in 31 of those states voted to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.  Only three states went the opposite way.  The redefinition of marriage is being forced on the public via judicial fiats, not voters at the ballot box.

But that aside, what all this means is the battle over gun rights and all the money from the Daddy Warbucks of the movement, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, could be coming to a state near you.

And it’s not just a state-level strategy that is new; the gun control lobby has also decided to ditch the “control” part of their name.  That is so, well, controlling.  They now prefer to be known as the gun safety movement.

Wonder if that has anything to do with the findings of a Pew poll taken in December, where 52 percent of Americans believe it’s more important to “protect the right of Americans to own guns” than to “control gun ownership.”  Hmmm.

The newly branded “gun safety” movement is now saying that banning assault weapons, a big push that has fallen flat in both Congress and the polls, will take a back seat to their push for expanding background checks.  They cite polls showing the majority of Americans support the latter.

But polls also show that 57 percent believe gun ownership does more to “protect people from becoming victims of crimes” while only 38 percent said they believed it “put people’s safety at risk.”

Interestingly, when you compare those numbers to the same poll taken just two years ago, you see that all the movement in public opinion has been towards the belief that gun ownership protects people. In 2012, just 48 percent agreed with that statement, while 37 percent said it put people at risk. The 16 percent who said they didn’t know or refused to answer two years ago has now dropped to five percent and the deciders have gone heavily towards the belief that gun ownership protects people.

As a conservative, I welcome most political battles being fought at the state level.  The less that Washington is involved in our day-to-day lives the better.

But be forewarned, despite what gun control advocates call themselves or what strategy they use, their ultimate goal is an America where citizens don’t have the right to bear arms.