[Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health

[Rosemary Huskey]

An interesting background explanation (written with lay people like me in
mind) of the second amendment can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitut
ion. Untreated mentally ill people are found in all cultures/societies.  I
don't think that Dan meant to leave the impression that he believes  the
"freedom" to own guns was the root cause of the tragedy in Phoenix.
However, it does seem likely that the ease with which innocent people can be
shot, rests entirely on the availability of guns in this country.  I am a
gun owner, and I am disgusted beyond measure by the NRA's "control" over
legislators.  What kind of  unfathomable jackass would trade unlimited
access to guns and bullets for campaign support?  It is astonishing to me
how gun rights issues makes super, constitution-loving patriots out of folks
who couldn't intelligently articulate any other section or amendment in the
constitution. Does anyone know how many gun owners - protecting their lives
(not their property which, frankly should not be on par with bodily harm) -
against the villains among us, occur each day?  How does that number compare
to the number of accidental deaths  or gun related murders?  And, while the
vicious rhetoric spewing from Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and
their remarkably stupid and ill-informed female counterpoints, of yeah, I
mean Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann,  and  the profoundly confused Virginia
Foxx - may not drive relatively mentally healthy person to become killers,
those struggling with significant mental illness (with components of severe
paranoia) may, in some degree, be encouraged by these predatory agitators.  

Rose Huskey

 

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Dan Carscallen
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 7:48 AM
To: 'vision 2020'
Subject: [Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health

 

Vizzz peeps,

 

We live in a free society.  One of the prices we pay for living here is that
there are some loonballs running around who could snap at any minute.
Should they be?  Probably not, but who is to say when and how these folks
should be rounded up and treated?  Sure, I think all of us can talk about
the guy in our neighborhood that seems a little sketchy, but what are we
supposed to do?  Call the cops and have them haul him in because he doesn't
fit society's norm?  I think there are a lot of folks, right here on the
Vizzz even, that don't necessarily follow the "norm".   But we go along and
live our lives in our free society.

 

The media talked to this Jared guy's neighbors, and they said "yes, he
seemed like a nutjob", but what were they to do?  They watched him, kept
their distance, stayed as vigilant as they could.  Unfortunately, he
"slipped through the cracks".  Should he have been prevented from buying a
pistol?  Maybe, but in a free society, how?  He wasn't a convicted felon, he
answered all the questions properly, and he paid his money.  It's not a
speedy process, no matter who or where you are.  Even with a concealed
weapon permit, and a pre-checked background, it's not quick by any means.  

 

This can't be blamed on rhetoric, nor on extremists from either side of the
aisle.  The blame lays solely on a sick man who obviously needs help.  And,
perhaps, the "blame" lays on the freedom we enjoy by being citizens of the
United States of America.

 

Your pal

 

DC

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