Posted on 12/17/2012 3:58:33 AM PST by Jerrybob
We're ( The U.S.) going in the direction of Europa in every other facet of our existence. This is most definitely the next step and those of us responsible gun owners that revolt or even balk will be the lunatics in grave need of sensitivity training, intense scrutiny, and re-education at the VERY least. I wonder what type of psychotropic drugs this guy was on. You DO realize that there is a very small percent of all of the shootings of this type in which the perpetrators were NOT under the care of a mental healthcare provider. I say re-direct the focus to the dope-prescribing doctors that are with impunity short circuiting the natural hard-wiring of the brain and put THEM on trial.
After an impaired patron has left a cocktail lounge and has become the cause of a horrific automobile accident, we've seen bartenders on trial for negligence due to "Over serving the customer". Somehow physicians that intentionally toy with and alter the internal workings of the brain would seem to be a more logical source of alarm.
In the 1960s, the United States embarked on an innovative approach to caring for its mentally ill: deinstitutionalization. The intentions were quite humane: move patients from long-term commitment in state mental hospitals into community-based mental health treatment. Contrary to popular perception, California Governor Ronald Reagan’s signing of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act of 196712 was only one small part of a broad-based movement, starting in the late 1950s.13
There is no shortage of these tragedies that have one common element: a person whose exceedingly odd behavior, sometimes combined with minor criminal acts, would likely have led to confinement in a mental hospital in 1960. After deinstitutionalization, these people remained at large until they killed. The criminal justice system then took them out of circulation (if they did not commit suicide), but this was too late for their victims. There is a clear statistical relationship between deinstitutionalization and murder rates. Violent crime rates rose dramatically in the 1960s, most worrisomely in the murder rate.
Deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill was one of the truly remarkable public policy decisions of the 1960s and 1970s, and yet its full impact is barely recognized by most of the public. Partly this was because the changes did not happen overnight, but took place state-by-state over two decades, with no single national event. While homelessness received enormous public attention in the early 1980s, the news media’s reluctance to acknowledge the role that deinstitutionalization played in this human tragedy meant that the public safety connection was generally invisible to the general public. The solution remains unclear, but recognizing the consequences of deinstitutionalization is the first step.
You found the real problem. They put the problem back on the streets.
Get ready for a ban on ALL “assault weapons”, which means anything with a grip and semi-auto clip fed. They will try. At the very least get ready for a ban on all high capacity clips.
Feinstein files the bill this week.
To what degree was the perpetrator affected by his autism?
Did he smash the two computers in the house because he had just lost while playing some first person shooter multi-player online role-playing game and felt a need to get even?
Since he started by shooting his mother, was he seriously angry with her for some imagined/real issue?
Given that this mother had lived with his condition for 20 years, and that she was quoted as saying "I'm losing him," why didn't she store her firearms more securely?
Given that he was attired in tactical gear and carrying an AR-15, and that his mother wasn't in the school, why did the elementary school officials buzz him in?
Why does the state of Connecticut prevent its teachers from being able to defend the children from predators?
I suggest that the lack of these questions goes back to my first statements about control and freedom.
Some thoughts......are that the DEMS in DC are beginning to recognize the potential implications of their massive Federal vote fraud in November. And starting to hyperventilate in terror.
After watching countless advertisements last night on TV peddling violent video games I think they should look in that direction if they want to ban something...
Does anyone else find it sadly ironic that the same leftist who want to take away my guns in the name of saving the children support the murder of thousands of unborn infants a year all in the name of a womans right to choose? I’m still looking that “right” up in the constitution. I’ll get back to you when I find it.
It isn’t a gun problem. It’s a mentally ill individual problem.
China bans private ownership of guns but only 3 days ago, the same day as the Sandy Hook incident, they had “A man with a knife slashed 22 children and one adult outside an elementary school in Henan province Friday morning.”
There will always be a means to inflict horror.
Why isn’t then MSM bringing up this atrocity? Answer: Because is doesn’t fit the anti-gun agenda.
When I was a teenager – before the Kennedy assassination – gun violence was relatively rare except in places like Chicago and New York City. Firearms were easy to buy, the only requirement was to be over 18. They could even be ordered from catalogues like Sears, the only requirement was to check a box on the order form affirming you were over 18.
After the assassination anti-gun laws were enacted. Gun violence increased. It seems that the more restrictive gun laws the more gun violence we have.
Before the gun grabbers ask, no – I don’t favor repealing all gun laws. Our society has crossed a line and can’t go back.
How long before people who tell the gov that you have guns get a reward?
Lessons should be keep yur dam mouth shut and forget about the stupid “I lost all my guns in a boating accident” bullshit!
Liberals have cut police budgets and tied their hands, they’ve disarmed the law abiding, and made it difficult to impossible to confine and help the perceptionally and emotionally warped (commonly called the mentally ill) and then when their policies result in a horror, whst do they want to do? More of the same.
There are no final thoughts on the gun issue. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. And there will always be those who are intent on stripping away the God-given, unalienable rights of the people in pursuit of their own power.
My son who is an Army Special Forces Officer reminded me that Mexico has some of the strictest gun control laws in the world. How is that working out?
Bravo! Well said!
You may be blaming the ever more restrictive gun laws for violence that would have occurred due to other forces, such as the rise of the drug culture (just one factor among many). But certainly, gun control laws have never done anything to stem the violence. They're just the easy, quick responses to these bloody atrocities that our politicians keep in their back pockets - ever so handy when the cry goes up to "Pass a law... ANY law!"
Wonder how long that bill has been siting on her desk just waiting for the time when she could do the Walter Houston dance on the graves of children?
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