The Newtown Ct shooting A dark day in our history

[lew1]

Originally Posted by saab-bob

Incredibly sad case.
Since the shooter was apparently diagnosed with a mental condition,I want to hear from the Doctor,psychoanalyst,whoever, who certified this guy as"not a danger to himself or others" and let him out on the streets instead of being locked in a institution!
That person has some explaining to do!
Bob

Very few people have been locked up since the early 1980s when the repubs decided that they should be mixed in with the general population.

[Shadowsix]

Originally Posted by lew1

Very few people have been locked up since the early 1980s when the repubs decided that they should be mixed in with the general population.

I am extremely saddened by this event & praying for the families hurt by this madness!

I do also feel that the mother was partially to blame for not securing her weapons properly. No securing of valuables or weapons is perfect but if done right can discourage those whose might try to steal them. The way I have my weapons secured by the time a thief was able to reach them the police would have been on the scene 10 minutes already.

What lew1 has said here is unfortunately very true. Very few mentally disturbed people are locked up anymore until AFTER they have perpetrated something horrible like this in our present world. Plus more than likely the shooter is usually killed & if not ends up in prison anyway. Asylums have been another casualty of our overpriced, malpractice litigation scared health industry.

The anti-gun zealots will try to use this to push more legislation that persecutes law abiding gun owners without trying to deal with the real issue which is trying to recognize these problem people and deal with them before they get to the point of doing these horrible things. They might as well try to also ban hardware stores for proving the components to make pipe bombs or even kitchen utensils because they can also be used to kill.

Sorry for the rant but this brings up a lot of emotion in me but I know it is nothing compared to the sorrow those families are experiencing in CT, the families from the mall shooting a few days earlier and also those suffering from the Aurora event of a few months ago!

[saab-bob]

Charlie
On your comment about then Gov. Reagan shutting down all the mental hospitals and letting all the patients out on the street to save money. Here is a counterpoint article to that revisionist history

http://onespeedbikerpolitico.blogspo...al-health.html
I grew up in CA and remember this.
Bob

[lew1]

Originally Posted by saab-bob

Charlie
On your comment about then Gov. Reagan shutting down all the mental hospitals and letting all the patients out on the street to save money. Here is a counterpoint article to that revisionist history

http://onespeedbikerpolitico.blogspo...al-health.html
I grew up in CA and remember this.
Bob

Thank you, but I was not talking about gov. reagan, nor had I mentioned him.