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To: Sully- who wrote (58303)	4/19/2007 3:19:08 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

"It seems these disturbed people are treated as if they are able to function within the acceptable norms of society." With proper treatment, many can and where outpatient treatment is appropriate, it's also a helluva lot cheaper. BTW, (IIRC) Cho was not receiving any post-eval. treatment even though (again, IIRC) outpatient treatment was recommended if not required at the time of his release. Perhaps there's one fixable crack in the system - no follow-up. The other relatively easy fix that I mentioned earlier is simply to allow authorities or the school to notify parents when a college kid is hospitalized, even if just for evaluation. After all, in many non-legalistic respects, most people in college ARE still kids. "Meanwhile it is unconscionable, that people like Cho, who have been committed voluntarily or otherwise, can buy firearms because of their privacy rights." He was never committed - he was detained, temporarily, for evaluation and released. "People like Cho", based on his temporary detention, would be a very large classification of people from whom to yank 2nd amendment rights (however loosely or tightly one defines them). Now, had he actually been committed, Virginia AND federal gun laws would have prohibited him from (legally) buying any gun.