Posted on 12/21/2012 7:34:02 PM PST by Sioux-san
Every mass shooting has three elements: the killer, the weapon and the cultural climate. As soon as the shooting stops, partisans immediately pick their preferred root cause with corresponding pet panacea. Names are hurled, scapegoats paraded, prejudices vented. The argument goes nowhere.
Let’s be serious:
(1) The Weapon
Within hours of last week’s Newtown, Conn., massacre, the focus was the weapon and the demand was for new gun laws. Several prominent pro-gun Democrats remorsefully professed new openness to gun control. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is introducing a new assault weapons ban. And the president emphasized guns and ammo above all else in announcing the creation of a new task force.
I have no problem in principle with gun control. Congress enacted (and I supported) an assault weapons ban in 1994. The problem was: It didn’t work. (So concluded a University of Pennsylvania study commissioned by the Justice Department.) The reason is simple. Unless you are prepared to confiscate all existing firearms, disarm the citizenry and repeal the Second Amendment, it’s almost impossible to craft a law that will be effective....
(2) The Killer
Monsters shall always be with us, but in earlier days they did not roam free. As a psychiatrist in Massachusetts in the 1970s, I committed people — often right out of the emergency room — as a danger to themselves or to others. I never did so lightly, but I labored under none of the crushing bureaucratic and legal constraints that make involuntary commitment infinitely more difficult today.
Why do you think we have so many homeless? Destitution? Poverty has declined since the 1950s. The majority of those sleeping on grates are mentally ill. In the name of civil liberties, we let them die with their rights on.
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
>> the demon possessed (severely mentally ill)
I accept the reality of evil people. No one disputes the existence of severely mentally ill individuals. The implication that severely mentally ill people are intrinsically evil is asinine.
1. Criminal on criminal
2. Suicide
3. Accidents ~ frequently with older, or worn firearms, and
4. Mentally ill shooters.
There's probably little to be done with the criminal on criminal stuff simply because the Democrats don't want to offend their families and lose those votes they need. it's pretty much the same problem with suicides. At the same time the best way to deal with accidental use of firearms is simply to collect old, nasty guns and replace them with new, working guns. Republicans will reject the idea of taking in the old guns, and Democrats will reject the idea of arranging for their replacement with new guns.
Then, there are the crazy people ~ again, the Democrats fear the loss of voters.
But those large state institutions might be useful ~ start rounding up Democrats, put them in the institution, give them drugs and electroshock therapy, and barrage them with NRA movies 24/7 ~
Getting the Democrat thought patterns out of the picture will make it possible for the rest of us to resolve the problems.
won’t happen....way too expensive.
Lets just talk a lot of freedom and rights and let very sick people roam the streets and stay vulnerable..that is a lot cheaper..after all, we have to keep our welfare people well fed and happy.
there will be howling and yapping about how we need better mental health treatment..but that will be all.
BINGO!
I won’t hold my breath about violence in Hollywood or increased mental commitments. They always want to blame it on the firearms and who knows what they will do. It won’t prevent another incident, but it will make liberals feel better and that’s important in the new Amerika.
This article also ignores the impact of psychotropic drugs that are being abused by doctors, parents, and patients alike. That has not been mentioned in the Newtown incident, but it is certainly in the shadows.
Not the most profound piece from Charles outside of the mental health issues and he also fails to mention that most of these events happen in “gun-free zones.”
Uh, you're going to have to provide a multitude of examples.
I know of any number of antique firearms that shoot just fine.
No one is addressing those who become demon
possessed by prescribed pharmaceuticals.
This is getting to the point of absurdities. Does anyone actually believe the demon crat party would love to enact house by house confiscations of anything with a ‘clip’ to feed ammo to the firing chamber? Does anyone (Buehler?) believe the republicants are going to prevent the leftist run media and the commie regime in power from cancelling the Constitutional rights of We he People? Sane actions to try and minimize the next maniacs slaughterfest are not possible in the atmosphere being fomented to allow the commie regie to exploit the fools who run on emotion.
This is getting to the point of absurdities. Does anyone actually believe the demon crat party would love to enact house by house confiscations of anything with a ‘clip’ to feed ammo to the firing chamber? Does anyone (Buehler?) believe the republicants are going to prevent the leftist run media and the commie regime in power from cancelling the Constitutional rights of We the People? Sane actions to try and minimize the next maniacs slaughterfest are not possible in the atmosphere being fomented to allow the commie regie to exploit the fools who run on emotion.
The leftwingtards were ready to blame his pistol until they found out how nasty it was. This one was so bad they gave up that line of attack.
BTW, not all old and nasty firearms are antiques ~ many of them are simply old and nasty!
No more expensive than where we are treating them now: state prisons and jails.
Now there you go - they do prove their dangerous lunacy on a daily basis. Good idea!
After the meeting, Stanek said there's a "strong correlation" between mental illness and recent mass shootings that cannot be ignored. Stanek also says jails are becoming de facto treatment centers for the mentally ill "because there's no place else to put them." Stanek is president of the Major County Sheriffs' Association, composed of sheriffs from large counties across the U.S.
http://www.twincities.com/ci_22234040/minn-sheriff-meets-biden-gun-violence?IADID=Search-www.twincities.com-www.twincities.com
Exactly.I can personally attest to that due to having worked in a big city ER for 20 years.I *personally* saw several of our schizophrenic "regulars" (all big city ER's have "regulars"...mostly mentally ill/alcoholic/heroin addicts) come in literally frozen to death.And there are other stories I could tell as well.Dr Krauthammer has a special credibility on this subject,being a trained psychiatrist himself.
In fact,I met him a couple of times while he attended Harvard Medical School...the hospital where I worked is one of Harvard's teaching hospitals.Very nice guy..an amazing guy,in fact.
No, given your order above, you’ll have to show that worn, old firearms are a greater risk than demented firearm acquirers/users.
After the meeting, Stanek said there's a "strong correlation" between mental illness and recent mass shootings that cannot be ignored. Stanek also says jails are becoming de facto treatment centers for the mentally ill "because there's no place else to put them." Stanek is president of the Major County Sheriffs' Association, composed of sheriffs from large counties across the U.S.
http://www.twincities.com/ci_22234040/minn-sheriff-meets-biden-gun-violence?IADID=Search-www.twincities.com-www.twincities.com
People should be able to do a quick turnaround on old firearms ~ bring it in and get a new one that's better in every way.
They should be assisted in defending themselves, and a good new firearm can do that job.
I bet they could figure out how to do that much quicker then rounding up all the legal citizens of foreign countries who have illegally entered the U.S.
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