Lead poisoning and the GOP.

I posted this earlier on another thread, and also as a joke a few times, but seriously...

People that shoot guns have higher lead exposures than those that don't. This is a known fact that you are welcome to look up.

Lead exposure has been linked to all kinds of health problems, including neurological disorders. Some studies have correlated lead exposure from gasoline to violent crime. That is up for debate, but the correlations are very interesting.

Because Republicans, especially far right republicans, tend to be avid gun enthusiasts more than the country as a whole, one could hypothesize that far-right republicans have had more lead exposure in their lives than those on the left.

Lead exposure is linked to delirium and hallucinations.

Serious question: Is it possible the wacky conspiracy theories that are rampant on the right these days are a result of lead poisoning?

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Reason10 · 70-79, M

By the way, boys and girls (and the liberals here have the mentality of Florida kindergarteners) why is this thread about Republican lead poisoning? Does this assume that only REPUBLICANS fire guns?
The Democrats are the ones who started and maintained the bloodiest wars in the country's history. Democrat politicians are protected by gun toting Secret Service agents or private bodyguards. Do you DemoNazis actually think those agents are using slingshots?

I didn't hear any worries about lead poisoning for the MILLIONS of Americans DRAFTED to fight in the Vietnam War, (started and escalated by Democrats.)

This is why I occasionally call a liberal a child. Adults usually don't make such stupid statements.

ElwoodBlues · M

@Reason10 says

I didn't hear any worries about lead poisoning for the MILLIONS of Americans DRAFTED

Perhaps you haven't been paying attention. Lead poisoning among service members is a real problem the DoD is taking steps to ameliorate. Referring to The United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg:

In a two-year investigation, the command had found unsafe levels of lead in the air at shoot houses and indoor ranges that were “directly responsible for elevated blood lead levels that have been found in weapons instructors and soldiers conducting high intensity weapons training,” according to a command document. The command cleaned up or closed some of its ranges and dropped the level of unacceptable exposure to 20 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. The Special Warfare Center now offers some types of training with “green” ammunition (rounds made of more environmentally friendly materials, like a copper slug with a steel penetrator, that contain lead only in the primer) and monitors blood lead levels of its instructors and students more frequently.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/magazine/lead-poisoning-military-soldiers.html

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ElwoodBlues · M

@Reason10 First of all, you lose ALL credibility when you try to dismiss data by impugning the source. Attacking the messenger has ALWAYS been an idiotic approach to establishing facts.

Anybody with an IQ above room temp would easily find
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/04/02/changes-special-ops-firing-ranges-appear-reduce-lead-levels-soldiers-study-shows.html
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/04/04/these-us-troops-are-slowly-being-poisoned-lead-their-bones.html

and go shooting and hunting occasionally

DUUUDE!!! It's the indoor firing ranges! Please try to keep up!!

which assumed that NO DEMOCRAT ever fired a gun

Nice straw man fallacy, LOL!!!
It merely assumed republicans fire guns significantly more often than democrats, as anyone but an idiot would realize, LOL!!!

You seem unable to respond to the actual arguments being made. Instead you need to manufacture idiotic straw men to attack; thus leaving the actual arguments unopposed, ROTFL!!!

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