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In reply to the discussion: Mentally ill people.. [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)is a very handsome man with a tortured soul. He also does not carry any type of ID to indicate he has a mental illness. One indication would be the types of medications he takes but that is confidential information. So the problem is finding a constitutional method of identifying the illness.
Also I seriously doubt that a 20 year old like the man who murdered those children has even been diagnosed yet and is probably not taking medications for mental illness. One indication I have noted in many of these cases is that parents are very aware of their children's problems and have done nothing to get them help. When my brother was diagnosed the doctor told us to keep firearms away from him and from that day there were NO guns in our home. We now have a safe witch holds all firearms safely from both him and other diagnosed family members and children.
This is not going to be an easy problem to solve.