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In reply to the discussion: 'Known schizophrenic' bought guns(at Walmart) before arrest in mother's shooting death [View all]dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)26. ooohh boy...there's a can of worms.
Devil's advocate here..
"potentially violent"..based on what criteria?
Not all people with the same diagnosis are violent ( see above post 19 by happyslug)
As a Mental Health professional, I certainly can not predict violence..I can predict possibility of violence,
or say that there is potential for violence, but to what degree is impossible to know.
Most of the truly psychotic clients I knew were never violent until the episode hit.
But, let's assume we get you into a database.
How do you get out of the database down the road when your mental status changes?
Shades of the no fly list.
ACLU will jump on any such database, betcha.
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'Known schizophrenic' bought guns(at Walmart) before arrest in mother's shooting death [View all]
kpete
Feb 2013
OP
Are you to enshrine discrimination against the handicapped in the constitution?
harmonicon
Feb 2013
#36
Schizophrenics are only marginally more likely than "normal" people to commit a violent crime.
Kurska
Feb 2013
#4
And thus many people do NOT go to Doctor for fear they may lose their license
happyslug
Feb 2013
#21
No and they're notoriously sketchy. My mother has been diagnosed with numerous psychological
Ed Suspicious
Feb 2013
#9