Failure to deal with mental illness leads to massacres
In the wake of the massacre in Aurora, Colo., the left has once again resorted to clamoring for further restrictions on the right of law-abiding citizens to own guns and defend ourselves — even in the face of inescapable evidence that such restrictions are at the root cause of such slaughters.
The misguided left believes that more gun control will somehow magically stop psychotic nuts hell-bent on going on a killing spree. As usual, they are dead wrong.
According to the kind, caring and considerate left, you have every right to be a crazy druggie and roam the streets with no means of support. Heck, they even help nut-jobs occupy Wall Street and beyond. Surely, the unarmed and helpless will someday bring peace to the world, end world hunger and Rodney King’s dream of everyone getting along will become a reality. No wonder they call it dope.
Years ago the left clamored that mental institutions violated the rights of those with mental illnesses. The American Civil Liberties Union even sued on their behalf. The result was the doors of the cuckoo nests were flung open and the patients stumbled out.
Now they are everywhere. You can’t visit any city in America without encountering dirty people who are severely mentally impaired roaming the streets. Pushing shopping carts, mumbling to themselves, sleeping under bridges or in parks and basically being a nuisance, they ultimately endanger themselves. Most are not violent, just certifiably crazy by anyone’s standards.
But some of the psychotics are violent. Some believe they’re comic book characters and can’t tell the difference between fantasy and reality.
James Holmes, the sole suspect in the shooting, was under the care of a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado Denver. No one knows what the psychiatrist thought of the Joker. The records of their conversations are patient-client confidential, and so far the psychiatrist isn’t talking.
Granted, we don’t yet know the bizarro behavior of the Joker leading up to massacre, but we should begin trying to put together the obvious puzzle.
New gun laws will do nothing to stop mass shooting attacks
(GunAuction.com) — Very aggressive gun control hasn’t prevented multiple-victim public shootings in Europe, writes economist John Lott at FoxNews.com. And he adds that gun-free zones are a common feature of mass shootings.
He wrote that in last year’s shooting near Oslo, 69 people were killed and an additional 110 injured. Germany, a country with some of the strictest gun control in the world — it requires not only extensive psychological screening but also a year’s wait to get a gun — has been the site of three of the worst five multiple-victim K-12 public school shootings in the world, all in the past decade.
Lott wrote that there are more examples of attacks in countries with strict gun control, like in Austria, Britain, France, Finland and Italy. The guns used for the attacks in Germany and Norway were obtained illegally. When individuals plan these attacks months or even years in advance, it is virtually impossible to stop them from getting whatever weapons they want.
http://www.gunauction.com/news/article/20120802-Lott-New-gun-laws-will-do-nothing-to-stop-mass-shooting-attacks.cfm
The only people more insane than the nuts who shoot up the place are the ones who think writing something on a piece of paper will make it so. Today’s ‘progressives’ are anything but. They constantly substitute magical thinking for real world solutions to problems. The results are in the headlines every week.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Einstein
Thank goodness the patrons of the Aurora theater weren’t armed, otherwise something bad might have happened. /snark