Clinical Psychologist Turned Congressman Prescribes Mental Health Fix to Prevent Mass Shootings

The Daily Signal ^ | December 4, 2015 | Philip Wegmann

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[NorthMountain]

Mental health has nothing to do with JIHAD.

[BenLurkin]

Islam is a mental illness

[papertyger]

When your only tool is a hammer....

[D Rider]

Lobotomies for Jihadies

[Carl Vehse]

Clueless RINO.

[Blood of Tyrants]

He needs to have Islam declared a mental disorder first.

[FourPeas]

Basically more government bureaucracy and spending is the answer? I think not.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Just ban guns for Democrats and Muslims. Everyone else can have one.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Technically true, but there have been several mass shootings by non-muslim dangerous lunatics. A separate, but also important problem.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Guns aren’t the problem. Scumbags are the problem.

[SpaceBar]

The ‘solution’ end of the hegelian dialectic.

[dp0622]

I think of course a number of mass shootings by mentally ill people could have been prevented IF it was possible to FORCE someone into psych and keep them there as long as necessary, which would be forever in many cases.

Because once out, most people stop taking their meds.

The occasional mass shooting by the mentally ill is one of the prices we pay for living in a free country.

My Uncle Sal was schizophrenic. Would wrestle with demons, talk to the air and laugh out loud at nothing.

His sisters and brothers rented him a room in the city and took care of him. They could NOT get him committed.

Unless he consented.

It HAS to be that way because abuse or that kind of power would run rampant.

[webstersII]

More people on more psychotropic meds.

Yeah that will really help.

[Paladin2]

Aren’t most CongressCritters clinically mentally ill?

[nathanbedford]

If there ever was a dangerous power to invest in the hands of a federal government which is more and more likely to be run by Democrats in the medium to long term future, the power over the individual through ill-defined pseudoscience like mental health is one of the worst.

Assume an extension of the Obama administration in the name of Hillary Clinton for the next sixteen years with the power to define, diagnose and force the treatment and/or detention of those it concludes are unhealthy mentally. This from an administration that cannot even identify Muslim terrorism, this from the administration that calls such terrorism "workplace violence." Give the federal government, especially Democrats running the federal government, the power over the freedom of the individual because they define sanity for that individual and you have a highway to tyranny

On its face the proposal sounds wonderful, the kind of thing that will appeal to leftists who ooze compassion and live with an abiding faith in the power of government. But the science of mental health is hardly that and it is certainly not reliable enough to entrust personal freedom to an elitist group which defines its own world, diagnoses its patients, prescribes for them, forces them into detention, and labels them for life. If Obama could co-opt all huge and wealthy healthcare providers, the federal government should have no problem co-opting hungry psychologists who are inclined toward leftism anyway.

The whole formula smacks of our current unlawful coalition of powers which under the Constitution the should be separated to legislate, adjudicate, and punish. We have coalesced those powers in unnamed bureaucrats at the EPA for example to our sorrow. Let us not commit the same mistakes with respect to our personal liberties. It is bad enough that it is done on the state level and increasingly on the federal level, let us not institutionalize this across-the-board.

[DoughtyOne]

The mental health industry always thinks it’s got all the answers.

Isn’t it a hoot how many of these mass killers are on medication. Where did they get a prescription for it? Oh yes, from the folks who want to convince us they can fix this.

Their fix ain’t workin’ folks!

Frankly, some of these “Fixers” are very screwed up themselves.

I once worked with a woman that was a nice person, but just off the beaten path a bit too much. Social skills zero, good worker, but not someone I’d think was level headed.

Then I found out she got a degree in counseling. She was about to leave and start her new career.

This was the last person I would have picked to straighten someone else out.

I’ve seen a number of psychologists who were shall we say, “Wingnuts”. This is the profession that is supposed to straighten everyone else out.

Nope.

Delusional!

We have a jihad on our hands and these folks think it’s all going to be fixed by a few counseling sessions and more medication.

As I intimated, totally F’d up delusional bunch of fools. Not all of them, but enough to make this a nightmare waiting to happen.

[FourPeas]

It HAS to be that way because abuse or that kind of power would run rampant.

Exactly. Unless a person is clearly a danger to themselves or others, force is not appropriate in a free society.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

As bad as terrorism is, this “cure” would be worse than the disease. Besides, it’s crime/war issue, not a health issue.

Liberals really just have no idea.