Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Robert S asked in News & EventsCurrent Events · 8 years ago

(Ref Shootings) Why is there no conversation in the media about our failed mental health system?

Why are we limiting firearms and not focusing on mental health issues that both Aurora and Connecticut shootings involved? This is the actual problem. I don't see that restricting them from law abiding citizens can do anything but create more victims. This, on top of the fact that most of those in the media have no clue what a "assault rifle" sold to the general public in the U.S. actually is. We need to get nuts off the street. Not guns. If a nut wants a gun he will find one as we have seen. We need to reduce the number of nuts. Our mental health system is a sorry excuse for a public service thanks to the ACLU. As we bounce mentally ill people between jail, local hospital (that kicks them out asap), and walking amongst the public until they run out of meds or refuse to take them. And we say nothing about it. Nothing. 90% of the conversation is about guns. Inanimate objects. No talk about why these nuts were wondering, untreated. Or why it was so difficult for the mother to get him into a facility for help. Anyone ever think this might be a problem? These two individuals needed help. Only one got it but had to be jailed in order to get it and hes still not quite right. Thats not the way to fix our problem today.

8 Answers

Relevance
  • 8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Because the mental health issue is a lot more difficult to deal with, and would actually require us to do something useful, like start providing everyone with health coverage instead of simply posing for photos while screaming "Guns did it!"

  • 8 years ago

    pharmaceutical industriys make alot of money selling unhealthy drugs to citizens, regarding as to why nobody is talking about the fact that the drugs had no effects on adam laznza is simple: everytime something bad happens to a psychiatric patient they mostly point the finger at the psychiatrist that issued and recommended the dosage.

    another reason why the psychiatric organasiton forbids their psychiatric personnel to issues very HIGH doese is that they konw that some drugs wont have any effect on some patients and they dont want the psychiatric doctors cleansing themselves of legal responsibilties with excuses

    excuses like : ' the patient responded to no other medication and the dose was maxed out so nothing of my decissions could of change this unfortunate situation of this patient.

  • 8 years ago

    The government doesnt like to fund these care facilities.

    So there are hardly any place for severely incapacitated and dysfunctional even psychotic patients. They are almost the forgotten ones, the families become the only care giver, and if one person is saddled with being the family bread winner plus 24/7 caregiver, they exhaust all their energies to be alive an do the best they can for their loved one.. It is a recipe for disaster waiting to happen.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    because of fact limiting firearms makes it much less confusing to regulate the inhabitants, and limiting firearms does a greater ideal job of distracting the inhabitants from different themes than finding at psychological wellness. you're ultimate, a super variety of the anti-gun inhabitants does not comprehend the features of the firearms they're attempting to restrict. The media and liberals are doing a stable job of complicated the project to drum up help. no count what, shootings are right here to stay. we would desire to admit that and we are able to pass directly to battling what's impossible to stay away from. in reality, we are able to neither end or stay away from something by employing the blanket limiting of straight forward freedoms.

  • How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
  • 8 years ago

    It's a more difficult issue and the government always finds the easiest ways.

    Those lousy bureaucrats are for the money, not for the people. Most of them are.

  • 8 years ago

    The reason that only guns are discussed is because the Obomber Regime (and the globalist interests that control it) are planning to gut the Second Amendment as soon as Zero has lied his way through the swearing-in ceremony.

    Since the Lamestream Media is totally controlled by the same globalists who run the banks and the political parties, the only news the sheeple are allowed to hear is propaganda for the agenda du jour.

    https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Justices+Rul...

    http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/the-giant-gaping-hole-i...

    http://shtfplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/10-...

  • 8 years ago

    Quote ''We need to get nuts off the street. Not guns''

  • 8 years ago

    i am yet to come across a person who does not have mental problems . how can mentally sick persons discus mental problems ?

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.