Posted on 10/01/2015 9:49:14 PM PDT by Red Steel
Things that used to be called character flaws are now called emotional issues. Tired of people using their hurt feelings as an excuse to attack people.
Back in the “bad old days” he’d have been in an institution where he couldn’t hurt himself or others.
Lists of South Bay graduates from 2009 published in the Daily Breeze showed Harper-Mercer graduated from the Switzer Learning Center in Torrance with four other students. Switzer teaches students with learning disabilities and emotional issues.
A former behavioral aide at Switzer, who did not want her name used, said the majority of the students at the school are from foster, low-income and single-parent homes. Some of these students were expelled from other schools or had been in trouble with the law.
The school is divided among special needs students and those with behavioral problems.
OK, this boy was on Psych meds to allow him to not be in a lockup facility, this is the Mental Health disaster no one if talking about.
Have a friend whose stepson has Psychotic issues unless he takes his meds. He is on OR (Own recognizance - I.e. not in a facility. His behavior got so strange when he stopped taking them the Canadian Government refuses to let him back in
By and large Psych meds are devastating and detoxing near impossible. Lots of potential Zombies to do ones bidding
Watch and See...
Welcome to the World of the PC and Social agenda machines. Always got an excuse for these pieces of SH!T!
“The Left Hand Path” is a satanic cult.
This is not simply a ‘character flaw’. This is yet another example, IMHO, of the absolute inadequacy of our mental health institutions (of all kinds) in being able to recognize serious mental illness that is a threat. I am not blaming his mother, but I also believe that broken families almost always have some effect on the children. This is not an excuse in any way for what he did, but this is so tragic it goes way beyond just a character flaw.
I do understand what you mean, however, and when I looked at some of the social media ‘connections’ that one of his friends had posted, the lack of innocence and the ‘low life’ characteristics of these young lives was very disheartening and disturbing.
Short bus?
Conservative republican was created 7 hours ago.
Hard to say for sure whether he was taking meds that made him do this or whether he was not receiving any care at all.
I know nothing about this killer’s mother, but no matter how good a mother someone is, once the child is an adult, there is NOTHING a parent can do. Sure, call the authorities, maybe get a 72 hour hold. If the person hasn’t actually done anything he can’t be locked up.
There is a lot we could do better with our mentally ill and unfit. We could save lives. Gun control doesn’t do a damned thing. The evildoers don’t need to obey laws to get guns. They are going to die in a hail of cop bullets anyway; why should they read the rules about illegal guns?
But . . . but . . . but we have those Magick Pills that make them safe! /sarc
Where is this story coming from? It appears to me that people are confused because they don't know how to read the archive.org site. Archive.org first crawled the profile several hours ago and has crawled it seven times today. No one should interpret that to mean the profile was created today or that it was revised seven times today.
Article is good as far as it goes.
This one should never have been able to acquire firearms legally, so what is the story?
How hard would it be for someone with this background to be put on the no buy list?
It seems that early on after a shooting, information comes out that the shooter was likely on mind-altering meds. It’s really sick that nothing is being done that will end that revenue bonanza for pharmaceutical companies.
If he was on meds, how did he get a gun—beg, borrow or steal, or by legal means??
I too looked at the 2 pictures of his connections and then I looked at his connections connections and they looked like trashy misfits very odd pretty scary.
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