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.
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No argument here.
however, I will say this....when our dtr was first diagnosed as "pervasive development disorder" the psychiatrist said that sometimes these kids can develop schizophrenia in the upper teens or 20's....of course PDD became "aspergers"....(my dtr has never developed that)
this murderer was a total lunatic....he was also perfectly aware of what he was doing....he planned....he knew enough to know he had to kill himself to get out of it....
Molon Labe I understand (and live by), but the rest of your cryptic post is a mystery.
“Stanek also says jails are becoming de facto treatment centers for the mentally ill “because there’s no place else to put them.””
In the late ‘70’s the ACLU went to court saying that the patients then warehoused in insane asylums were having their constitutional rights violated. The ACLU won and the asylums were emptied onto the streets. (Where would hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people go?) The patients were given a bottle of medications which they most probably threw away as they were paranoid. Before this the only “homeless” I saw were the “free spirited” hippies trying to hang onto the ‘60’s. Suddenly the streets became a messy, dangerous place. This accelerated the flight of businesses into the suburbs. (It’s a lot harder for the homeless to work the crowd in a mall as security can run them off.)
In Tallahassee the homeless problem is so bad that armed police patrol the public buildings like the downtown library. A librarian told me there had been rapes behind the magazine rack and assaults were common. The corners, I’m told, stink of urine and the chairs have bed-bugs. The problem is due to a “homeless shelter” in the center of downtown. The county had offered a huge, pleasant facility at the count’s edge free in perpetuity if the center would move. The Mercedes driving, rich patrons and officers of the shelter said, “No, we want to keep the homeless problem ‘in-your-face’ until you solve it.” How, exactly, do you solve mental illness? Denver, for example, build homes for their homeless and moved them in with furniture. The homeless sold the furnishings and moved back to the streets. I wonder what part of “mentally ill” the liberals don’t understand.
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.
I rest my case! Open the mental institutions they closed years ago the school system is not a mental institution.
Psychiatric hospitals in the United States also developed comprehensive health promotion services. In the 1990s, more than 62 percent of psychiatric hospitals offered patient education services. Outside of the hospital establishments, 35 percent of psychiatric hospitals were engaged in community health promotion, and an additional 37 percent in work-site health promotion.
http://business.highbeam.com/industry-
reports/business/psychiatric-hospitals
Key among the expanded service roster developed by psychiatric hospitals were programs that addressed the psychiatric and psychological problems of children and adolescents. In 1986 more than 20 percent of the patients in psychiatric hospitals were under 18 years old, and by the 1990s, more than 70 percent of psychiatric hospitals offered programs specially designed for this age group. Such programs emphasized outpatient care in an effort to encourage teens to seek treatment without the fear of inpatient hospitalization.
Psychiatric hospitals in the United States also developed comprehensive health promotion services. In the 1990s, more than 62 percent of psychiatric hospitals offered patient education services. Outside of the hospital establishments, 35 percent of psychiatric hospitals were engaged in community health promotion, and an additional 37 percent in work-site health promotion.
You said you didn’t believe libtards favor total confiscation. I assure you they do.
Sorry I wasn’t clear: the current crop of anti-American democraps realistically will not try to institute total confiscation, but whatever the bastards try to legislate the republicants will not stand in their way since they too are violating their oaths to OUR Constitution and could care less about the Republic as founded.
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