I agree with Ed when he says there is a crisis when it comes to the treatment of mental illness in this country. However, it’s very likely we disagree on the methods. He asks if mentally ill people should have access to firearms. The real question, IMO, is whether the severly mentally ill should have access to society.
Due to numerous lawsuits over the years they do. A great deal of this is courtesy of the ACLU.
Why did Loughner’s parents not take care of their son? Even if he is of age, they had to know he had issues. They had what looks like a voodoo shrine in the back yard? Did they not know he had the gun?
Reminds me of the shooting in Columbus, Ohio when the Damageplan concert got shot up. That shooter was mentally ill, but his mother helped him get a gun, I believe.
“I agree with Ed when he says there is a crisis when it comes to the treatment of mental illness in this country”
And yet the shrinks of this nation are more concerned with endorsing self-destructive.
Well, it needs to be said: ‘The system did not work, probably because of liberal idiots like the Sehriff in that town.’ Loughner, as a mental patient, should not have been allowed to legally purchase the fire arm he used. That says nothing about the ease with which he could probably have acquired a weapon illegally, but it is glaring indictment of the foolish hoops the system has that don’t work to accomplish what the fantasy fool democrat think they’re accomplishing. Like the young man said, it doesn’t matter what laws you write, there are already enough guns ‘out there’ that someone attempting to get one can and will, so why restrict the legal acquisiton by responsible citizens? The solution is not more restrictions like these that didn’t work. The solution is to allow more ready access to responsible citizenry like the young man who school the windbag Schultz.
Well, it needs to be said: ‘The system did not work, probably because of liberal idiots like the Sehriff in that town.’ Loughner, as a mental patient, should not have been allowed to legally purchase the fire arm he used. That says nothing about the ease with which he could probably have acquired a weapon illegally, but it is glaring indictment of the foolish hoops the system has that don’t work to accomplish what the fantasy fool democrat think they’re accomplishing. Like the young man said, it doesn’t matter what laws you write, there are already enough guns ‘out there’ that someone attempting to get one can and will, so why restrict the legal acquisiton by responsible citizens? The solution is not more restrictions like these that didn’t work. The solution is to allow more ready access to responsible citizenry like the young man who schooled the windbag Schultz.