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Topic: Coulter: Guns Don´t Kill People, Mentally Ill Do |
Coulter: Guns Don´t Kill People, Mentally Ill Do
Human Events, by Ann Coulter
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Posted By:smcchk, 1/16/2013 11:22:35 PM
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| Seung-Hui Cho, who committed the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, had been diagnosed with severe anxiety disorder as a child and placed under treatment. But Virginia Tech was prohibited from being told about Cho’s mental health problems because of federal privacy laws. At college, Cho engaged in behavior even more bizarre than the average college student. He stalked three women and, at one point, went totally silent, refusing to speak even to his roommates. He was involuntarily committed to a mental institution for one night and then unaccountably unleashed on the public, whereupon he proceeded to engage in
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Comments: Ann´s unabashed look at how violently disturbed people in the USA are treated, or not treated, and the awful consequences of that.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
woodsman, 1/16/2013 11:34:10 PM (No. 9121373)
You have to appreciate her clarity
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bighambone, 1/17/2013 12:07:41 AM (No. 9121403)
Today Obama referred to the mentally ill as being victims and the liberal Democrats consider the mentally ill to be disabled. Put it all together and the mentally ill are disabled victims of the guns that a few of them use to murder innocent people to get attention as they carry out their personal suicide missions. Because of that Obama and the liberal Democrats want to take away the rights of hundreds of millions of law abiding Americans.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ribicon, 1/17/2013 12:12:01 AM (No. 9121408)
FTA: "James Holmes, the accused Aurora, Colo., shooter, was under psychiatric care at the University of Colorado long before he shot up a movie theater. According to news reports and court filings, Holmes told his psychiatrist, Dr. Lynne Fenton, that he fantasized about killing “a lot of people,” but she refused law enforcement’s offer to place Holmes under confinement for 72 hours."
Never a worry about contributory negligence for the mental health professional who allows psychotics to remain free, or for judges and parole boards that release ticking time bombs to the streets. Systems are completely broken, and we´re supposed to hand in our weapons and rely on these same functionaries for our protection.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
rlwo, 1/17/2013 1:15:33 AM (No. 9121456)
If this article is accurate, the psychiatrist the should lose her license. When I had to evaluate people for involuntary detainment to a psychiatric hospital, I never let them go home if I had any doubt whatsoever. I would be damned if I was going to wake up the next morning to find out they killed themselves or anyone else. The good thing was we were a very rural county and the public defenders here listened instead of having a political agenda. Sometimes a new one would try to argue in court that information I gathered from others in my investigation and evaluation was hearsay. They would quickly learn they were full of it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
rlwo, 1/17/2013 1:18:46 AM (No. 9121459)
And I learned very quickly to pay close attention to what law enforcement officers said and asked for.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
smcchk, 1/17/2013 1:24:13 AM (No. 9121462)
I wish your professional conduct and judgment were the rule, #4, not the exception.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Echohawk, 1/17/2013 9:48:17 AM (No. 9121859)
There is indeed a pattern--young, mentally disturbed men in their twenties who are enthralled by violence. They become the mass murdering shooters. The last word ought to be parents and those who treat these young men. If the parents believe their son is a danger to himself and others (included themselves), the parents should have the power to commit their adult children. The courts should not be the last word.
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