jmacavali
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.... the media is just picking up everything more and more to fill a 24-hour news cycle.
This is the problem. And this creates copy-cats.
.... the media is just picking up everything more and more to fill a 24-hour news cycle.
Legislation to allow the police to check up on those with mental health issues easier. More authority to institutionalize people. Recently a man shot up a naval yard in DC and a woman ran a barricade near the Capitol building. Both were KNOWN to have severe mental problems. The woman had told people that she had dangerous thoughts of committing violent acts. The guy who shot the navy yard had a previous incidence of violence as well possessed an unpermitted gun. So why didn't we do anything about it? THAT'S the issue. Put these people in a mental asylum. Get them the help they need.
And why is everyone focusing on the shooting part? He killed 3 people with knives and drove other others. He clearly didn't need one to carry out his plans.
In the current state of world affairs, a law to pluck people thought to be having mental issues off the street or their homes would be blatantly abused by the government itself. It would be a lame excuse to remove those that didn't follow blindly the orders of the governing party. Right now as it stands you have to be tested and brought before a judge. Not just plucked off the street and thrown in to an institution.
Sure there's those that need help and do they do cry out for it in their own way. And there's some real nut cases out there that wind up making the headlines. But if we enact laws giving the government absolute power over us, it's no longer a free country. It's anarchy.
And as for being less concerned for privacy rights, what planet you from? People have fought and died protecting your right to privacy among other rights. It's a fracking free country. When you start chipping away at our freedoms, you give some one else the right to run your life. Not mine. No sir. I have given my time and my blood fighting to defend those very freedoms.
Don't spout such nonsense in the presents of a Veteran. You just might not like what happens next, trust me. I'm a Veteran.
Because that is the title of this subject or am I wrong.
I can see your point tho.
I have a strange feeling that either the media or the court, or both, play something here!
Both are likely at play in my opinion. If you're a low-life who thinks no one cares or knows who you are and you see people like Adam Lanza still talked about long after the shooting on an almost daily basis doing the same kind of terrible acts looks more and more tempting.
Also, our courts here (at least in my part of Wisconsin) don't throw the book hard enough at people who do commit gun crimes. Every day I see in the news some criminal who's being arrested for their 5th+ gun offence (felon in possession, which is illegal) and every time they are let out after serving just months in jail instead of the years that the law allows them to go away for. Some punishment, eh?