I'm glad you asked. This country does a lousy job when it comes to mental illness. I suffer from Bipolar and Schizoaffective Disorders. Without medication I'm the dirty bum on a street corner in the city having an argument with the side of a building. My meds cost close to $3000 a month. I luckily have the assets. If you met me you couldn't tell I suffer from a mental illness but there are a lot of people not as fortunate as I am. But people will forget the real cause of this massacre and we'll just end up with a debate on gun control.
In China, this past summer, where no one has a gun. Parents of a 21 year old man tried to get him in a Hospital because of his mental health. They were turned down again and again for 3 weeks. During the 3rd week the 21 yo took two swords ran down a crowded city street and killed 11 people.
So let's take away the guns, but then they'll use knives/swords. Let's take away the knives/swords, and they'll use baseball bats. Take away the baseball bats and they'll use baby diapers to smoother you. NO please don't take away the baby diapers.
Also there are too many guns out here they would never all be turned in. So let the people have their guns. Even make them easier to get. Control the ammo, you see today's modern guns you can't make the ammo at home.
I'm sure that sometime in your life you have been so made at someone you would kill them with your bare hands. We all have, but you controlled yourself and that person is still alive. The problem is reality and the mentally ill are not in the same room at times. A normal person is not going to shoot 5yo kids and his mother. We have tragedies over and over again and all that anyone wants to do is debate gun control, when mental illness is the real problem.
I agree, the stigma against mental illness certainly played a role in this tragedy, if this young man and his family had actively sought therapy before Friday his problems could have been identified before he acted out in such a deadly manner.
We need to encourage everyone we know and love to talk through their thoughts and issues with trained professionals. Everyone can benefit from therapy and no one should be hesitant to engage in treatment.
James Holmes, who killed people at the CO theater was seeing a psychologist at the time of the incident. It didn't help him any. Just saying.
How do we know that he was never treated or given professional help? There hasn't been any information about what was or wasn't done with him... All we know so far is that his brother acknowledged he had issues...
Manchurian candidate
Also http://www.infowars.com/school-shooter-a...
I agree We must pay attention Many family members are in denial about the mental illness in their families and believe they would never hurt anyone
The shooter, Adam Lanza, was supposedly withdrawn from society, and it was evident that he wasn't normal.
Such behaviors made it totally clear; they could see that he wasn't okay at a young age.
What if he was treated back then? What if he was given professional help from a psychologist, say?
