Posted by baseball55 on October 3, 2015, at 20:01:19
In reply to Shooters and Psychiatry, posted by bleauberry on October 3, 2015, at 7:11:44
Most of these shooters were not in the mental health system at all, so blaming the mental health system for failing them is beside the point. There are plenty of weird and angry people out there who are not mentally ill in any accepted diagnostic sense and don't seek out therapy or medication. There's no evidence this guy in Oregon ever sought help for mental illness. The only one of these many shooters that I know of who was briefly in the mental health systems was the guy in Sandyhook, whose mother was worried about him. But was he worried about himself? Enough to seek out and accept help?
Sometimes people with murderous intentions just prefer to nurse their murderous intentions. Why call them mentally ill? Politicians pull out this term because all of us assume that someone who does what they did is nuts. But there's a difference between being nuts and having a diagnosable or treatable mental illness.
People kill their girlfriends and their girlfriend's children every day and we don't bother calling them mentally ill. I suppose because they don't use assault weapons, so that we have to broach the delicate topic of gun control.
And, bleauberry, what does Obamacare have to do with anything at all? Save your political rants for the politics board.
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