[morphing libertarian]

the reliance on drugs was a way to clear the mental hospitals and try to give each mentally ill a “normal live’ outside of abusive large institutions and poor conditions.

Now we have tens of thousands of Mentally Ill on the street and as with many parolees I saw, there is no one around to ensure they take their meds.

We have to triage people and put the ill ones in supervised living in smaller facilities than large hospitals.

As far a people that are threatening or meet a profile, they also need to be triaged, which is what the FBI and the cops should have done with the guy in Florida.

Shooting mass numbers of innocent people and having violent ideation or posting violent manifestos to that effect should be considered a form of mental illness and the person screened to see of they are a danger to others.

PS I favor more citizens carrying.

[Yaelle]

Agree with everything you said.

[KitJ]

"Shooting mass numbers of innocent people and having violent ideation or posting violent manifestos to that effect should be considered a form of mental illness and the person screened to see of they are a danger to others."

Well said. Yes.

[familyop]

"Shooting mass numbers of innocent people and having violent ideation or posting violent manifestos to that effect should be considered a form of mental illness and the person screened to see of they are a danger to others."

I agree with that sentence. Anyone shooting mass numbers of innocent people *and* one of the other two behaviors should be evaluated, just as you said.

But if you intended to refer to those who only have violent ideas or post violent manifestos, then anyone writing something like "A Modest Proposal" (Jonathan Swift) would be disarmed and whisked to the booby hatch lockup. I guess it would bring the consolation of removing some artsy-fartsy, dramatic folks from our midst, though.

;-D

[Biggirl]

Winning post.