Remember the old days when if somebody was acting wacky the “men in the white coats” would come to take them away? I actually saw that one time in the 1960s when I was a little kid, them taking a guy away in a straight jacket, men in white coats just like the cliched saying. They use to even have a SONG about it, “They’re coming to take me away”.
I read a good analogy the other day: If someone is hit by a car, do they leave that person in the street for months, years even before the ambulance comes to take them away to the hospital? So why do we do that to the mentally ill? This kids own PARENTS called the COPS on him, and the cops who are not trained in mental health made the determination that he was OK, when they should have called “the men in the white coats” but I assume that kind of thing doesn’t go on anymore thanks to the ACLU.
Look how long it took the parents of that actress Amanda Bynes to get her committed, I think it took about a year of going to court over and over and over again, and meanwhile she’s attacking people, trying to burn a dog alive, talking to herself, basically living in her own world which at any time should could have very well ended up as another Elliot Rogers. THAT has got to change! It’s not the NRA, it’s how the whole mental health system is handled in this country, it SUCKS and I assume it’s going to get a hell of lot worse under Obamacare.
As I recall, the ACLU fought to end the laws that allow for indefinite confinement of the mentally ill to hospitals. Committing them amounts to imprisoning them without trial, in ACLU liberal think. So they made it nearly impossible to commit someone. Since most mentally ill people are not violent, but only homeless and dirty, the left has no real incentive to undo the damage the ACLU did. That is because homeless people serve as evidence of the failures of capitalism and are thus a valuable propaganda tool.
Sadly, Elliott started treatment for psychosis at age 8... he obviously needed more than pills and therapy, and never got it.