The kid who did the killing in Ct did not own any guns.
Unfortunately, his mother did, and she made them accessible to her son.
We will always have the mentally ill among us. Predicting which of them will become killers is certainly not an exact science.
I was taught in psych class in nursing school, that when it comes to mental health, that mentally, there is no “black” or white” and that we’re all just a different shade of gray.
Where do the rights of society begin and the rights of the individual end? A psych class question.
When society can no longer compel medication that help the identified mentally ill function, then the violent rampages against the most vulnerable will continue. Thanks ACLU - not. Obviously not all mentally ill needing medication are going to be violent, but for sure the identified mentally ill not taking their medication have been the source of our national grieving.
Yes, sanity is quantitative, not qualitative. It’s never a question of whether a person has mental problems or not, it’s a question of how serious a person’s problems are.
I wouldn’t say she “made them available” to him.
They were locked in a safe.