No one wants a dangerous person to have a weapon. But our mental-health system simply can’t be the last line of defense. There are just too many mistakes. Potential victims need to be able to defend themselves.
“More money for mental health won’t stop these mass murderers,” former Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Professor Dr. Arthur Berg and pro-gun academic John Lott declare in a New York Posteditorial, Why psychiatrists can’t stop mass killings. Their logic is inescapable: most mass murderers were in psychiatric care before they committed their heinous crime. Specifically, Elliot Rodger (Isla Vista), Ivan Lopez (the recent Fort Hood shooter), Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook elementary), James Holmes (“Batman” movie theater) and Seung-Hui Cho (Virginia Tech). Which raises two important questions . . .
Why didn’t the shrinks prevent the attacks and what can we do to stop deranged people from going postal? I think you know the answer to the second, so let’s hear what Berg (and Lott) have to say about why “psychiatrists failed to identify real threats”:
Psychiatrists have strong incentives to get the diagnosis right. Besides their own professional pride and desire to help, they have legal obligations to inform authorities of a threat. Families of those killed by Holmes sued his psychiatrist for not recommending that Holmes be confined. Similar legal action may face Rodger’s psychiatrists.
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So the problem is LAWYERS! Who knew?
Arm yourself against crazies….and collectivists.
It’s history. It’s human nature. It’s fractal. It repeats & rhymes.
Sorry, OT but just had to mention. BFH’s Bergdog’s “Smile” vid is up to 127,000+ views. WOO-HOO!!!
Thank the ACLU for making it impossible to commit these criminally insane killers
Oh yes. And what about Harvard educated Amy Bishop who shot and killed 3 colleagues at the Univ. of Alabama after she had already killed her 18 year old brother in an “accident” some time ago, back in Massachussetts? Maybe why liberals are so afraid of guns? “We have met the enemy and it is us…”
“Arm Yourself Against Crazies”
Check.
Peaceful but prepared.
“So the problem is LAWYERS! Who knew?” – SiS
Shakespeare?