Since the Maine massacre, we have been hearing the familiar response to a mass shooting by a mentally ill man, which is to deprive everyone of their civil rights.
This from frontpagemag.com.
If the nation has violent and dangerous people on the loose, we can expect these dangerous people will get their hands on guns or other weapons, regardless of whatever laws there are.
Gun control does not stop killers,
it stops people from protecting themselves.
To stop mentally unstable mass shooters, the nation should institutionalize them and make the terms of release more stringent than they currently are.
A lot of seriously mentally ill people desperately need help, some even request it, but they do not get the help they need. And this is more than a mere problem, this is a pandemic of its own kind in America.
The following is just one example:
A young Oklahoma mom has been found dead on a barge on the Mississippi River—days after she was arrested for repeatedly calling 911 pleading for help.
Hailey Silas’ body was found about 7 a.m. Saturday while the barge’s crew was performing an inspection while traveling the Mississippi River near Shelby Forest in Tennessee, WREG reported.
Less than a week earlier, the 22-year-old mom was arrested for calling 911 several times Sunday from a gas station across from Southland Casino, according to the outlet.
She reportedly asked authorities to give her a ride out of West Memphis, Arkansas, because she was scared of something and was having a ‘panic attack.’
After Silas was taken to a station in handcuffs, she asked to talk to her parents, saying she was scared and confused, according to WREG.
It was not immediately clear what she was scared of, but the young mom also asked to be taken to a ‘psych ward,’ the report said.
She pleaded guilty on Wednesday last week to a misdemeanor of communicating a false alarm and was given a suspended sentence of time served, according to records cited by the outlet.
The authorities sure missed on helping Hailey Silas.
Bizarrely, we would rather arrest people who are requesting to be taken to a psych ward, than take them to a psych ward. There’s a persistent bias against institutionalization in America, as opposed to Europe, fed by movies featuring patients being abused within the system. As a result, we have crazies wandering the streets and other crazies shooting up bowling centers.
There’s definite meaning behind the lines of a song:
The lunatics are on the grass.
Got to keep the loonies on the path.
The meaning: The mentally ill require and must be given assistance. Uncared for and unattended to their own devices they stray from the path, they become a risk to themselves and to the general public.
First question: Do we have a ‘homeless’ problem, a ‘mass shooter’ problem, or a ‘mental illness’ problem?
The answer: All of the above. And little or nothing is being accomplished to address any of these growing problems.
Next question: Which comes first, drug and/or alcohol abuse and addiction or mental illness?
The answer in one word: Both. Chronic abuse of and addiction to drugs and alcohol can lead to mental illness. But often the mentally ill will choose to self-medicate with drugs and/or alcohol, rather than seek proper help or because they cannot get the help they need for their mental illness.
NOTE: Treatment for abuse/addiction of drugs/alcohol is much more easily obtainable than mental health care.
Perhaps if the Left would stop concentrating their efforts on combating the Constitution in the way of gun control and gun grab initiatives and focus on addressing the needs of the mentally ill, mass killings by the mentally ill may be eliminated.
The refusal to institutionalize the mentally ill has wrecked our cities and cost many lives. It’s time to rethink the issue. Afterall, for a problem to be solved, it must first be properly identified.
