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In reply to the discussion: A proposal for dealing with the potentially dangerous mentally ill [View all]Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)further demonize us to be nauseating and bigoted. Your delineation isn't strong enough and you aren't qualified, even by your upset regarding the topic. One in four Americans suffer from some amount of "mental illness" and the doctors are still changing definitions and treatments. Some of the drugs they hand out cause more harm than good; why not focus upon that? Big pharma are a profit-driven industry which should be alarming in and of itself. Not enough attention is being paid to that problem.
As to your call to further herd real, living PEOPLE, it is exactly the same as my calling for the jailing of the emotionally-devoid criminals who are personally profiting upon causing starvation in millions. That's millions of people starving; shouldn't there be something done about them? They are obviously sick and are causing death and massive suffering. I find the crime to be the intentional murder of multiple persons, the same as in your OP. Why is there no outcry against their crime, why no drive to jail and control them? It is exactly the same thing, but in far greater proportion. And it is a call to attention regarding something which -should- be categorized and removed from the ability to continue to cause such harm.
What I am saying in a nutshell (no pun intended), is that you are off-base and might wish to instead turn your sights upon something more dangerous to far more people. As well as my post far above regarding "why isn't anyone either upset or calling for regulation regarding the 1000+ 'normal' people who have killed each other in the month after Sandy Hook"? A thousand people have died and no one cares. I suppose we now only care if more than one person is killed at once. You know? Proportion. And no more easy answers to complex issues.