Question 1) Was James Holmes known to be mentally ill?
Question 2) Was James Holmes taking medication for mental illness?
Question 3) Were there red flags that should have indicated to friends and family that Holmes was a time bomb, ready to go off?
Question 4) If none of these things are true, then why are we having this conversation? Political agenda? Does everything have to be fodder for additional federal intervention?
Mona says that better mental health medical practice will fix mass killings???
She is one naive lady.
Unleashing our psychiatrists, psychologists, and our social workers on the nation is....Well, it’s exactly what has been done.
When the defense has its psych and the prosecution has its psych, and they consistently say opposite things, then we realize this is a field that it pretty much at odds with itself.
Last summer in Jackson Michigan a man beheaded an elderly neighbor because she was “emanating rays” at him. They found him wearing her clothes and holding a bag with her head in it.
It turned out that his family had repeatedly petitioned the court to lock him up for his own and public safety but the courts wouldn’t touch him.
The point behind Aurora.. Gun Up America! Practice your tactics, luckily I have a husband who is with me ninety percent of the time. Two person tactics are much easier, be sure to plan for the event of one person unable to fire. I am sick of mass killings in “Gun Free Zones”. Big signs that say Gun Free clearly only disarm law- abiding folks and increase casualties in cases where insane people come to die in a dramatic way. That man came to die, it is most unfortunate he did not. (I say that knowing he will face his Final Judgement). Now, he will be protected, vehemently be the media, as a poster- child for “it wasn’t his fault”.
Gun Free = More Innocent Victims.
What do you expect when even children carry around devices that can let them know and communicate and even fabricate, anything, at any time, to/from anywhere in the world.
We and liberals have separate world views. Conservatives are generally Christians and as such believe that man is fallen and his only hope is Jesus Christ. Liberals believe man is basically good and unless he is corrupted by conservative talk show hosts or the site of hand guns then he cannot fall.
The better approach would be to go back the way they did things in places where government was either non-existent or was incapable of dealing with this sort of thing. Every society in human history had their own way of dealing with various assorted freaks and misfits ... and it usually wasn't very pretty.
You have to ask one more question:
What Obama problem is this taking our focus away from?