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5/29/2014 6:25:24 PM
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What can we do about mental health in America?

A person can walk into a gun store, he appears to be normal, he strikes up a conversation with the shop owner. The Shop owner has no idea if he has a mental illness or not. A week later the gun is used in a shooting. This is not about the gun or where to get a gun, it's about it being very hard to tell whether someone is disturbed enough to be homicidal. Like that Elliot Rogers kid who suddenly snapped, who knows how long he was bottling up those emotions. I don't think mental health clinics or whatever they are called are doing enough. What do you think can be done about this?

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    'Free' (At the point of access) mental healthcare services, countrywide and they can be funded by whichever means would cause the least foaming at the mouth from the right wingers. National database for those being treated that is then used to correlate for gun purchases - this would cause most right wing nutjobs to shit themselves with rage at the government intruding in their lives. Whilst someone is being treated, restrict access to firearms - Make it a non-criminal offence. The police can confiscate the guns, hold them for safekeeping until the person is deemed well enough to own them again by the shrinks, No fines and no jail time. If this doesn't cause several aneurysms in the anti-government folks then I don't know what will. Anyways. Clamp the mother-blam!-ing hell down on the media reporting shootings, it's not waa freedom of teh press it's shouting fire in a crowded theatre. Same reason that reporting on suicides isn't widespread and subjected to ridiculous media scrutiny like Adam Lanza was, emulators. You stop planting the ideas in their heads and making the shooters out to be some anti-hero. Nobody should be able to remember their names after they start shooting, apart from those directly affected. This might kerb some of the shootings in Amurika, but of course this will just get trashed by people screaming about big gubermunt intruding in their lives.

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