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Originally Posted by Oberon
It is important though that we don't (and when I say we, I don't just mean people here, but everywhere) use mental illness as an excuse for these sorts of actions, or indeed come to associate mental illness with radical actions just as some associate Islam with terrorism.
It is important to help people with mental illness, just as it is important to help people avoid Islamic extremism, and so on. Hopefully in that way we will help to reduce the number of domestic terrorist incidents. |
The numbers are sobering ...
http://www.thekimfoundation.org/html...tatistics.html
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Mental Disorders in America
Mental disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older or about one in four adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.
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http://america.aljazeera.com/article...ss-prison.html
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There are 10 times more mentally ill Americans in prisons and jails than in state psychiatric hospitals, a report published Tuesday April 8, 2014
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The problem is getting worse not better ... the sanity of the law makers is to take away guns or to legislate gun laws so a mental patient can do no harm to society using a gun.
Dynamite, hammers, saws, knives, swords, rocks are yes, but guns are on the list to eliminate the legal right to obtain a gun.
The click of an empty gun is a pleasant sound to the one being shot at, but what caused the click in the mind of the person doing the shooting?
A judge in Houston, Texas, at a man's sentencing for shooting for killing his best friend, asked the young man why he did it.
The answer: "Because it looked so easy on TV"
330 million people in the USA need help from it's elected law makers, not just this mentally ill shooter named Roof.