Posted on 09/20/2013 6:51:37 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
In the liberal remake of “Casablanca,” the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to “round up the usual weapons.”
It’s always the weapon and never the shooter. Twelve people are murdered in a rampage at the Washington Navy Yard, and before sundown Sen. Dianne Feinstein has called for yet another debate on gun violence. Major opprobrium is heaped on the AR-15, the semiautomatic used in the Newtown massacre.
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I have sat and watched a loved one go from psychotic back to himself within 30 minutes after administration of an anti-psychotic medication. It’s not unlike taking care of someone with diabetes or asthma. I’ve also seen people on the street in large cities who need to be arrested for assault and taken to the emergency room for the “hold” that Dr. K is talking about. It’s for their own good and once there much can be done. We are past the years when these folks were taken to drab hospitals and locked up in their own filth and given electroshock therapy. A generation or two ago, nothing could be done besides heavily medicating them. Many became chronic alcoholics because alcohol quieted some of the voices and then the world rejected the dirty, drunk, incoherent child of God. I understand the resistance to locking them up even for a couple of days but the alternative is what has been happening time after time. The ones who kill are a minority but there are a lot of others out there suffering who need intervention. I thank God every day that my loved one got that intervention.
op·pro·bri·um -- very strong disapproval or criticism of a person or thing especially by a large number of people
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Bingo! I have a relative who was feeling self conscious about having to take anti depressants. that's exactly what I told her. I think it helped.
The problem becomes a statistical analysis.
In an average day....you’ve got forty thousand people across the US who are threatening people. Twenty will be arrested and toted off to some jail. The rest? We just try to overlook and pretend they aren’t really going to kill us. Out of the forty thousand incidents...probably a dozen will actually kill someone....a relative...a friend...or just some stranger on the street.
We’ve got a problem that simply won’t go away, and it needs action. All this talk over taking weapons away is a total waste....I wish they’d use that time and talk to discuss actions on those are the actual threat.
I remember a member of our choir one Christmas eve showed up acting like someone who had been drinking heavily. A friend led him away and came back and reported that he was having a diabetes episode. It’s quite scary how minor fluctuations in chemicals in our brains have such a strong effect.
Was or was not Alexis on medication? And why was he not being referred to see a specialist, after the RI incident?
I would like to know what technologies the ‘Agency’ has to create a “hearing voices” symdrome. This may be where the real scandel lies.
https://sites.google.com/site/mcrais/voices
The real scandal is apparently they were paying $12.15 an hour for a low-level IT contractor whom HP was probably billing the government at least seventy bucks an hour for.
With the cost of living in D.C. you can barely hire someone with three functioning brain cells at that wage. Of course the pool is going to be made up of mental defectives. Somebody had to rubber stamp his clearance. It was the only way such a job could ever be filled.
High EMF will do it.
But I am very concerned about the consequences of ComDems “deeming” everyone who has an emotional episode as suddenly stripped of all rights. If they are a threat, there is no issue. If some nurse scribbles on an admission form a coded block and suddenly they are put in a database to remove all 2nd amendment rights, this would be the Left’s wet dream. They would declare us all mentally deficient and send us to the looney bin.
Caution is in order. The track record of psychiatrists is not good in general. Many people with emotional issues are not a threat to anyone.
With the approach of ObamaCare Insanity, this will be a much bigger issue. As the non-medical bureaucraps start making medical decisions for us, without our concurrence and without recourse you will see what I am speaking of.
Good point.
A rational concern. Nor do we want government defining what constitutes mental health without very careful deliberation. If it took a jury trial, would that be a sufficient cause for caution on the part of the "mental health" bureaucrats?
I had thought that the AR-15(Newtown)was found in the trunk of the car that Adam Lanza drove?NBC”Broke”that story and then(QUICKLY)”HUSHED IT UP”???????????????????
You are EXACTLY CORRECT!Word of Alexis’s”Breakdown”was passed through”Channels” but NEVER got there!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The analogy is imperfect.
It would be like treating an asthma or diabetes attack, then any guns you or your spouse own would be confiscated and you would be put on a list preventing you from ever having one again in your life, with no way to get your name off the list.
“Ultimately, a civilized society must disarm its citizenry if it is to have a modicum of domestic tranquillity of the kind enjoyed in sister democracies like Canada and Britain. Given the frontier history and individualist ideology of the United States, however, this will not come easily. It certainly cannot be done radically. It will probably take one, maybe two generations. It might be 50 years before the United States gets to where Britain is today.
Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic — purely symbolic — move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation. Its purpose is to spark debate, highlight the issue, make the case that the arms race between criminals and citizens is as dangerous as it is pointless.”
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