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Adam Lanza's Mental Problems 'Completely Untreated'

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Romantic Heretic11/22/2014 9:43:05 am PST

Speaking as someone who is mentally ill, sorry, but no.

Being able to force treatment on someone who is mentally ill is a definite government overreach. It criminalizes illness, and as was shown in the Soviet Union can be used as a tool to crush dissent.

The fix to gun violence in America is to change America’s attitude towards firearms and towards violence.

Firearms, as I’ve said before, have a literal holy status among many Americans. Possessing them, using them, confirms the person’s faith in America.

Violence is not a tool of last resort to many Americans as well. Due to the common interpretation of American history violence was how it was born (The American Revolution, The Civil War, WWII), violence was how it succeeded (Wild West, The Gilded Age, Prohibition). The overlap between these two groups is very large.

Until these attitudes change nothing else will change.

This would also help with the treatment of mental illness. Amongst the believers there is no such a thing as mental illness. There is only mental weakness. Weak people are regarded with contempt and so aren’t deserving of help. I suspect that’s why so many people buy firearms. They know they have a problem but instead of going to a doctor they buy a firearm instead because a firearm makes them ‘strong’.

Then, in extreme cases like Lanza, they have to use those firearms because they need final proof of their strength. It’s an extreme form of bullying. “I’ll prove I’m strong by using my power to make everyone else dead!”

re: #8 Skip Intro

There is no solution for insanity.

True. But like diabetes it can be treated by environment and drugs.

Also like cancer, another incurable disease, you live every moment of your life afraid it will return…and it will kill you this time.