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Are any of our kids at this school that had the shooting?
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 568940" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>MWM...the day that this happened China had 22 kids die too in their schools but instead of from guns it was knives. The bigger question isnt guns it is mental health. Concentrating on the guns is just putting a band aid on a gaping wound. It wont stop the main issue. What we need is a way for parents and the actual patients themselves to get the help they need with these major mental health problems. We had way less of these problems before we shut down all the state run psychiatric hospitals and decided that our jails were going to be this countries mental health facilities. These people dont need jail, they need long term mental health. A person with schizophrenia isnt going to take medication reliably for the most part. Someone needs to be able to oversee this and as it stands now, parents are out of the loop once a person reaches 18. You can argue gun control but then what about if they mow down people with a car? Do we need to take away cars too? The methods are limitless. Its the person who does the crime and the mental illness that is at the core of the problem. That is where we need to focus our attention now. This is where we need to hold our law makers feet to the fire at a time where they are the most vulnerable. If we can take their attention off what they think is an easy out of gun control and put it where it should really go, we just may be able to make inroads into a place where we have had a really difficult time getting anyone to listen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 568940, member: 1514"] MWM...the day that this happened China had 22 kids die too in their schools but instead of from guns it was knives. The bigger question isnt guns it is mental health. Concentrating on the guns is just putting a band aid on a gaping wound. It wont stop the main issue. What we need is a way for parents and the actual patients themselves to get the help they need with these major mental health problems. We had way less of these problems before we shut down all the state run psychiatric hospitals and decided that our jails were going to be this countries mental health facilities. These people dont need jail, they need long term mental health. A person with schizophrenia isnt going to take medication reliably for the most part. Someone needs to be able to oversee this and as it stands now, parents are out of the loop once a person reaches 18. You can argue gun control but then what about if they mow down people with a car? Do we need to take away cars too? The methods are limitless. Its the person who does the crime and the mental illness that is at the core of the problem. That is where we need to focus our attention now. This is where we need to hold our law makers feet to the fire at a time where they are the most vulnerable. If we can take their attention off what they think is an easy out of gun control and put it where it should really go, we just may be able to make inroads into a place where we have had a really difficult time getting anyone to listen. [/QUOTE]
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