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To: marktwain; All
the GUN_CONTROL PATROL - from the Pres. on down - hit the airwaves while those little bodies were still in the school!("Never let a crisis go to waste" on steroids)

How about MENTAL HEALTH control? These tragedies started after the mental health hospitals closed and put the mentally sick loose on the public - and treatment of choice is Prozac, etc, - these shooters have almost 100% been on Prozac and related drugs, which have a PROVEN side effect of suicide and violence.!

Yet none of these sleazy politicians mention we need more control and treatment over the mentally ill - and who triggered turning the mentally ill loose on the public? Pres. Jimmy Carter. - which is another reason it's never mentioned. If these mental cases can't get a gun, they use other means - like pipe bombs... It's not the guns. I remember when the mental hospitals were closed - and mentally sick couldn't be committed without THEIR permission! That's like saying the drunk driver can't be arrested without their permission.

post this link everywhere and anywhere you can - There are not many people today who know or remember why the mentally ill not only don't get the treatment THEY need, but who explode with such violence on the Innocent.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=32339

4 posted on 12/15/2012 11:08:23 AM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does.)
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To: maine-iac7

Be careful about that Carter posting. We got rid of most of the funding for the programs to treat mentally ill under Reagan, including that federal program for community mental health treatment. And frankly I don’t want the government funding more mental health projects like Carter tried to do. It’s a huge boondoggle of government expenditure to house and/or treat them. We block granted it and cut the funding to the states. So it’s up to the states to fund this stuff and if they don’t want to do it, so be it. I know this was a lot of kids but this is the price we pay. It’s not all that high on a yearly average, only about 10k people or so.


10 posted on 12/15/2012 12:10:45 PM PST by rudabaga
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