Posted on 08/08/2019 10:56:18 AM PDT by bitt
After two horrific mass shooting incidents last weekend, the United States is once again locked into the same frustrating routine that follows such tragedies.
In El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, deeply disturbed individuals shot and killed more than 30 people in two separate events.
Many Democratic politicians running for president immediately began using the incidents in their fundraising, calling for gun bans and more gun control laws, such as bringing back the lapsed assault weapons ban.
President Donald Trump took a far different approach when he stated that its time to begin grappling with mental health reform, and I think hes right.
Trump outlined five steps he intends to take in response to these latest mass slayings.
Set up partnerships between the Department of Justice, local state and federal agencies, and social media companies to identify and act on early warning signs of someone threatening a mass shooting. Stop the glorification of violence in our society, which includes video games and other forms of mass entertainment where the act of killing is celebrated in a culture of violence. Reform the mental health laws to more accurately identify mentally disturbed individuals who may commit acts of violence to ensure they get treatment when necessary, they must be involuntarily confined. Ensure that people judged to be a risk to public safety have their access to firearms taken away by due process. Quickly and decisively administer capital punishment for those who commit mass slayings, without yearslong delays. Trump acknowledged some of these proposed steps will be very hard to achieve, such as the second one, which calls for a cultural change. Trump himself said:
Cultural change is hard. But each of us can choose to build a culture that celebrates the inherent worth and dignity of every human life. Thats what we
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Let’s start with the Democrats mental health!
Implementing #3 removes the need for #4.
We do have high rates of mental illness, and the billions of pills swallowed over the last 30 years haven’t reduced those rates.
The culture is sick, but we can’t talk about social issues. That’s been off the table since the 1992 Republican Convention.
Both Mario, and Andrew Cuomo closed psychiatric centers in NY State, and tossed the residents into the community. Prison population exploded in the State, and a large number of inmates came into the system with mental health issues. I know, because I worked as an officer in NYDOCS for 25 years, and had to deal with them.
There IS no “national discussion” when only one side owns all the platforms by which such a discussion can be carried out.
There are a lot of people who demand that some challenged children are included in classrooms, sports, competitions, etc.
To some extent that’s OK. But as adults who are still challenged and possibly alienated... there is a time to call a thing by its right name.
We’re cultivating an element that cannot cope. We are enabling adults who are NOT responsible for themselves... not in their relationships, their work, their property (including guns) and you have to make some decisions from the start, to address this likelihood.
Liberals have always fought this. Now, it’s coming home to roost. Never mind that media violence and the criminally dummied-down education in the US has contributed greatly to the problem.
THIS is the perfect storm
Mental illness is certainly part of the problem but we also have a problem with young men of all races who need proper raising to know how to be a man and not a problem to society.
The government, education, workforce, military, and media have become female centered. It’s not a bad thing to give women opportunity for a future, a young woman without good opportunities is a sad thing, but a young man without good opportunities is a dangerous thing. They tend to drag women down with them as well.
I think we need to concentrate on our young men for awhile.
Discuss this. Just open all the bughouses again.
We need to do away with the euphemism of “mental illness” and recognize the large majority for what it is, permanent brain damage due to the abuse of illegal drugs. They need to be permanently locked up in high security insane asylums and the key thrown away.
Right now we have thousands of dangerous raving lunatics wandering our streets and nobody can do anything about them until they kill or seriously injure someone.
Amen .
Problem is the ACLU would fight back.
Going after video games again. Pitiful.
Lock up all the demon rats.
They are all bat $hit crazy and then some.
MSM proggies talking about mental health?
Will their panels include transexuals, pyromaniacs, multiple personality folk, bipolars, nymphomaniacs, schizophrenics, furries, kleptomaniacs and the depressed? Theyll provide the MSM baseline for normal in their discussions.
That happened way before that 1999 decision.
Da, tovarishch
anyone who opposes socialism or rejects The Party is obviously insane.
Oh, thats gooooood!
APA is mainlining deviant behavior I doubt they would allow mental discussion free from distorting facts.
I know, but that will never end until we fight back. We have right on our side.
The aclu should be called out in public for their hypocrisy and, frankly, for their communist ways.
I know one thing - most of these organizations thrive because they never get challenged. That is a mistake we must rectify if we can ever win the culture war.
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