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So what's the answer?
- Thread starter Mark Dwight
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MegF.
That's for sale???
I do too, and not one has killed anything I didn't intend to kill yet! I don't think that this problem is purely the US. It's everywhere. You just see it in mass in other countries. Here it's one person, there it's an entire bunch of people running amok. I do think a lot of it is the lack of care for mental illness. There is little or no help for people who's family members or even themselves need help regarding mental illness. usually the care falls on the parents or others to handle that person. I know of two of my good family friends that deal with a child with mental illness that they get no help for. Unless they DO shoot up a school, no one considers them to be a problem...yet they are still very ill. They set their own homes on fire, threaten family members with injury or death, but until they actually do something, no one will help. It's a sad thing....
kathylove
Pragmatic & Logical
It is understandable (though not proper, of course!) that some humans use guns or other force to steal things. Greed is at least a comprehensible human emotion.
But it seems to me that anyone who kills people - by any method - (especially large numbers of people) for no obvious reason (such as stealing) is by definition, insane. So how do you stop insane people from doing insane things? Certainly not by more laws. Crazy people don't care about laws.
It seems to me that there are two tracks to help alleviate this problem. One is to educate citizens on how to recognize possible telltale signs that their friend or relative needs psychological help, and then we (society) need to provide that intervention. The other track has already been discussed - providing as much security and self defense as possible.
Don't expect insane people to act logically - or obey laws - it won't happen!
But it seems to me that anyone who kills people - by any method - (especially large numbers of people) for no obvious reason (such as stealing) is by definition, insane. So how do you stop insane people from doing insane things? Certainly not by more laws. Crazy people don't care about laws.
It seems to me that there are two tracks to help alleviate this problem. One is to educate citizens on how to recognize possible telltale signs that their friend or relative needs psychological help, and then we (society) need to provide that intervention. The other track has already been discussed - providing as much security and self defense as possible.
Don't expect insane people to act logically - or obey laws - it won't happen!
MegF.
That's for sale???
Well said Kathy. You actually can't expect any criminal...insane or otherwise to obey laws....it just doesn't work that way! Mental illness is widespread here and there's just no assistance for people anywhere. When interviewed people will say "well, now that I think about it...he was acting weird but I didn't think anything of it". Hind sight is 20/20 as they say...