U.S. needs an intervention on guns

About half of America is insane about guns and the other half cannot cure their illness:

There have been fewer than 20 terror-related deaths on American soil since 9/11 and about 364,000 deaths caused by privately owned firearms. If any European nation had such a record and persisted in addressing only the first figure, while ignoring the second, you can bet your last pound that the State Department would be warning against travel to that country and no American would set foot in it without body armour.

In fact, if we take the entire history of U.S. warfare vs. the past 50 years of gun deaths, our national sickness looks even worse:

The figures from Congressional Research Service, plus recent statistics from icasualties.org, tell us that from the first casualties in the battle of Lexington to recent operations in Afghanistan, the toll is 1,171,177. By contrast, the number killed by firearms, including suicides, since 1968, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the FBI, is 1,384,171.

Porter believes it's time for the rest of the world to intervene and stop the bloodshed in America, since we Americans are mentally and physically incapable of ending it ourselves.

American gun use is out of control. Shouldn't the world intervene?

By Henry Porter

September 21, 2013 | Guardian

URL: http://gu.com/p/3jxv3

Study: The more Repubs know, the crazier they are

Let's recall the famous quote first attributed to American humorist Josh Billings and paraphrased by Ronald Reagan, among others: "It ain't ignorance causes so much trouble; it's folks knowing so much that ain't so."  Check it out:

75 percent of Republicans, but only 56 percent of Democrats, believed in at least one political conspiracy theory. But even more intriguing was the relationship between one's level of political knowledge and one's conspiratorial political beliefs. Among Democrats and independents, having a higher level of political knowledge was correlated with decreased belief in conspiracies. But precisely the opposite was the case for Republicans, where knowledge actually made the problem worse. For each political knowledge question that they answered correctly, Republicans' belief in at least one conspiracy theory tended to increase by 2 percentage points.

Well, we liberals already knew that FOX and talk radio make you stupider. Now we have proof.

Tinfoil: the official headgear of the GOP. Get yours today!

The More Republicans Know About Politics, the More They Believe Conspiracy Theories

By Chris Mooney

January 24, 2013 | Mother Jones

URL: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/conspiracy-theory-partisan-bias

Poll: Half of GOP believes ACORN stole '12 elections

So... we already knew that dead people all vote Democrat; now we learn that 48 percent of Republicans believe that a dead umbrella organization is helping them to do it.  Oy vey!

I wonder what Zombie Reagan and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, have to say about all this undead political activity?

Republican Voters Pretty Sure 2012 Election Was Stolen By Non-Existent Organization

By Jason Linkins

December 4, 2012 | Huffington Post

URL: http://huff.to/SvNsw7

America: Still crazy after all these years

Having several paranoid family members and friends, I can vouch that the "Paranoid Style in American Politics" is very much alive and mentally unwell.

Still 'paranoid' after all these years

By Todd Leopold

November 4, 2012 | CNN

URL: http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/04/politics/paranoid-style-politics-hofstadter/index.html?hpt=hp_c2