Multiple deaths, including children, at Connecticut school shooting

If Ben wants to authorize and fund a new national initiative and apparatus for better mental health, I'm all for it.

He'd be fulfilling an unkept 30-year-old political promise in doing so.

 

I spent two years volunteering on the legal side of mental health policy.

Let's just say, as we've noted early on in this thread, that the GOP finding Jesus on the issue is quite a remarkable change of heart.

 

I always get a big laugh when someone shows they have no idea what "a well-regulated militia" means.

 

They should have their heads examined!*





*But can't, because the community mental health services network they agreed to construct was never built.

 

And they shut down the facilities that were already in existence.

 

Yes. But to be completely fair, a lot of the old apparatus - the snakepit, Willowbrook, "Cuckoo's Nest"-style state institutions - was shut down in the 1970s (incl. under Carter) on the promise that a shiny new community-based mental health network would be built to replace it.

It was not.

 

I sometimes chuckle about what an anachronism "Cuckoo's Nest" is to watch/read nowadays.

The big issue in the story: A state mental hospital was keeping people too long.

Yeah, that happens today.

 

Even if you believe militia in the 2nd means every man in the nation, it still doesn't give coverage to the "well-regulated" part of it. I've not been asked to show up at the town square with my musket, powder, balls, flints and hard tack as the colonists had to do.

Perhaps that's the tack gun control advocates should take. You want to own a gun? OK, but you have to report to drill one Saturday per month.

 

Ben Poquette will be happy to hear this:


www.nytimes.com/2013/03/09/us/south-dakota-gun-law-classrooms.html?smid=tw-share

 

I always get a big laugh when someone shows they have no idea what "a well-regulated militia" means.

 

One can only hope you'll take the time to explain it us.

 

Dick, this became a national, pressing issue after Sandy Hook. We were told about mass shootings and "assault weapons." The shootings that resulted in this "critical" national conversation on gun control were all crimes committed by mentally ill people. So you can be as tired as you want hearing about this being a mental illness issue...mentally ill shooters led to the latest gun control push.