Dr. Helen » If the Second Amendment is to Blame for Mass Murder, Then the First is to Blame as Well: Do We Get Rid of Both?: "GloriaClearly, we do not want to create the new Soviet Gulag that becomes an excuse to imprison political dissidents. But mainstreaming everything is not the world's best answer either, is it? The wonder is that the results of our current policy aren't much worse, isn't it?
Yes, it is about mental illness and especially the fact that families have no place to safely house mentally-ill adult children. I discovered when I taught a large-enrollment introductory university course that there were always one or two severely disturbed students in the course. The graduate Teaching Assistants (TAs) would have problems in their weekly tutorial sessions with these disturbed individuals acting out and frightening both other students and the TAs. The TAs would bring their concerns to me and I would contact the university’s counselling centre for advice on how to handle the situations. I learned from the counselling centre that these students would remain enrolled in whatever courses they could get into on campus NOT to get a degree, but because their parents had no other place to put these young disturbed adults and felt they would be safe on a public university campus. It is the complete de-institutionalization movement that began in the 1970s which has caused the public health problem of mentally-disturbed murderers today.
Confining mentally-disturbed people who have violent tendencies is not an evil thing to do. Confinement in a humane and safe setting would provide security for both the mentally-ill people (who seem to be quite confused and frightened by the “regular” world) and for the public in general.
December 16, 2012 - 10:03 am "
Liberals live in Orwell's "bourgeoise illusion bred of money and security" and will never escape it until their bubbles are burst with cold reality -- if then.
In the meantime, they will use Stalin's "the death of one man is a tragedy" to manipulate the sheep knowingly or not. The sad part is that most of them think they are "high's" when they are (by statistical definition) in fact middles or lows being manipulated by the highs -- and mostly the crippling memes just run on autopilot in a positive feedback loop amplified by often-drug-fueled emotion...
Will they allow us sheep to have the kind of debate we should? Here's another powerful article on the subject with some real first person information. Yes, it's on HuffPo, but is this mother Stalin's executor? I think not.
Bad choices and worse choices. That is the reality.
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