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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: epicure who wrote (250995)5/25/2014 7:09:27 PM
From: Steve Lokness  Read Replies (4) of 541769
 
<<<< 1. guns being so readily available to the mentally ill>>>>

I agree with you that mental illness in this country has to be addressed. It doesn't fix a mentally ill patient to throw him in prison. To expect his mental health will be better when he gets released from prison is nuts.

This was a tragedy of immense proportion before a gun was even touched. My understanding is that three people were knifed to death before he grabbed a gun. So even if every gun in the state was locked up - it was his mental issues that resulted in tragedy. Should we do something about loop holes in gun laws? Sure, but that issue we will never agree on and in a democracy all sides get their say. Work on the doable - mental health.
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