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Nuclear Unicorn

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36. Then I'd be interested to know what the OP thinks should be done about the dangerously mentally ill

Mon Oct 5, 2015, 09:53 PM

Oct 2015

Someone determined to commit murder-suicide will find the means. And they are determined by virtue of the fact so few of them allow themselves to be taken alive. You can't disarm that.

These individuals number maybe a few dozen at any given time in a population of 330 million. Yet, supposedly, the solution is to disarm 80 million people contrary to the constitution and legal precedent and against the will of the electorate. Logistically speaking intercepting the dangerously mentally ill ought to be the point of focus because it would be easier. Particularly since they seem to express themselves prior to their rampages.

It would also be more human for the mentally ill. These spree killers may have earned our derision but consider the emotional torment they are in that drives them to their acts. How can we claim to be a humane society leaving them wandering the streets believing their inner demons?

So, when the target of action is 80 million good people while leaving a few dozen in anguish I suspect helping the mentally ill is dismissed as not relevant to the final objective.

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Then I'd be interested to know what the OP thinks should be done about the dangerously mentally ill Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #36

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