Closing the gun-show loophole probably would make it "a little harder for our kids to get gunned down", as would greater efforts to prevent and/or contain violent derangement.
Obamamania may be less of a problem than Bush derangement syndrome.
Messrs Bush and Rove have been at their most successful when playing political hardball: mobilising the right, winning over a sliver of conservative Democrats and independents, and driving left-wingers to derangement.
His point is that the way to understand today's Republican Party is to accept that many of its voters have fallen victim to a "carefully cultivated derangement".
All, it seems, may be classified as mental derangement, and treated as such.
Political disagreements between Emperor Rudolf, who, to an increasing degree, showed signs of mental derangement, and the rest of the family led to the so-called Habsburg Brothers Conflict.
In August 1884 Edison's wife, Mary, suffering from deteriorating health and subject to periods of mental derangement, died there of "congestion of the brain," apparently a tumour or hemorrhage.
Nothing is more revealing of the extent of the king's derangement than the story of his senseless slaughter of the 85 priests at Nob, noted in I Samuel 22. Adding to the problems of Saul's final days, the Philistines mounted new attacks on the Israelite heartland.
Death in human beings and other mammals, for example, often results directly from heart or lung failure, but the preceding sequence of events may be highly complex, involving disturbances of other organ systems and derangement of other control mechanisms.
In the more serious stages of uremia, the buildup of waste products in the bloodstream and tissues causes a wide-ranging derangement of the nervous, cardiovascular, and respiratory systems and can lead to edema, hypertension (high blood pressure), convulsions (seizures), heart failure, and death.
The stimulus that results in this derangement of the immune system is not known.
