Virginia vs. Iraq

CoasterMatt · 04-18-2007, 11:23 PM

All the gun control laws in the world wouldn't stop something like this from happening; but there is something that can help prevent this sort of thing, mental health resources.

This country has tons of money for research on keeping an old man's pecker hard, but they can't seem to find the coins to drop on helping people who might be getting lost along life's way.

wendybeth · 04-18-2007, 11:29 PM

Great post and point, Matt.

Alex · 04-18-2007, 11:31 PM

I don't see how that would have prevented this case, though. Short of forced commitment and treatment (which we got rid of 25 years ago), which, without the clarity of hindsight would have been pretty sketchy.

wendybeth · 04-18-2007, 11:38 PM

I can't speak for other areas, but ours has been hard hit by mental health cuts. Between the cuts that not only limit but actually prohibit help, and the HEPA laws, etc, the lunatics are running the show. I know whereof I speak here- my mother is off the charts and we can't do **** about it, even though she tried to kill someone in a nursing home a while back. We can't make her take her meds or live in a decent place, and finally we had to distance ourselves or go nuts along with her. The professor, I think her name is Roy, expressed disbelief at the impotency the system had with this obvious time bomb, and I share her frustration.

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wendybeth Nevermind Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,847	Great post and point, Matt. __________________
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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I don't see how that would have prevented this case, though. Short of forced commitment and treatment (which we got rid of 25 years ago), which, without the clarity of hindsight would have been pretty sketchy.
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04-18-2007, 11:38 PM	#4
wendybeth Nevermind Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,847	I can't speak for other areas, but ours has been hard hit by mental health cuts. Between the cuts that not only limit but actually prohibit help, and the HEPA laws, etc, the lunatics are running the show. I know whereof I speak here- my mother is off the charts and we can't do **** about it, even though she tried to kill someone in a nursing home a while back. We can't make her take her meds or live in a decent place, and finally we had to distance ourselves or go nuts along with her. The professor, I think her name is Roy, expressed disbelief at the impotency the system had with this obvious time bomb, and I share her frustration. __________________
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