[little jeremiah]

There used to be mental hospitals where psychotics were sent and treated, one way or another. Or warehoused.

Some people cannot exist in society due to psychosis. What do to with them? Giving them psych drugs and turning them loose is obviously not the answer for many of them.

Doing nothing about dangerous psychotics because people with “unpopular” viewopoints may be unfairly targeted is sort of like the argument that there should be no death penalty because an occasional innocent person might be executed.

Any law can be misused, any govenment agency or department (at any level of gov) can be turned into a political weapon. Does that mean anarchy is a better choice? Some people think so. (Not saying you think so, just sort of musing on the topic.)

[Deplorable Debra]

Some people cannot exist in society due to psychosis. What do to with them? Giving them psych drugs and turning them loose is obviously not the answer for many of them.

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And what about the psychoactive drugs they are giving children for ADHD or whatever? When did that start and why are they giving them Adderall and other such stuff?

[Disestablishmentarian]

Any law can be misused, any govenment agency or department (at any level of gov) can be turned into a political weapon. Does that mean anarchy is a better choice? Some people think so. (Not saying you think so, just sort of musing on the topic.)

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You do know the left characterizes Trump and most of his supporters as mentally ill, right?

And, to be fair, Rush calls liberalism a mental disease and I tend to agree with him.

In dictatorships, one of the first moves is to characterize opponents of the regime as mentally ill, where they can be incarcerated without any protection of law as we know it.

Is Islam a mental illness?

Is Marxism a mental illness?

Are you okay with letting the same people decide who think there are hundreds of genders, or who think that there is a prevalent disorder called "Toxic masculinity?"

Because I assure you, there are those who think Christianity, conservatism and nationalism ... certainly Trumpism ... are mental illnesses.

Freud actually wrote a book about the mental illness of "Religion."

I cannot think of any of the mass shooters who would have been locked up in the old insane asylums; although I do think there is a place for these institutions.

It's just NOT A BONE WE SHOULD THROW TO THE ANTI-2nd Amendment forces. Believe me, THEY STAND READY TO ABUSE THE POWER.