Reply #127: No dancing here..

[X_Digger]

(Too chubby to do more than 'the twist'.)

I can't see a short-term quick fix actually helping.

Here's why:
-I attribute a lot of the craziness to the general level of anxiety / stress .
-Truly mentally ill people with a tendency to harm others don't have many treatment options right now.
-Those suffering from drug addiction are still not being helped, and any new program will take time to be effective.
-Paranoid RW hate-filled types aren't going to be mollified before 2016 at the earliest (assuming Obama is re-elected).

However, I do think Obama should take his mandate and expand / create programs that would not only stop spree killers, but also raise the general level of welfare in this country. I grew up in dirt poor rural Virginia (Grundy, to be precise.) When I take people who have never seen true poverty there, they're incredulous- that in the center of the country, amongst all that natural beauty- to see kids starving and going barefoot due to lack of opportunity- gobsmacks them. Mental illness and drug addiction / abuse are rampant. Many are one step away from hopelessness. Many have given up on any kind of meaningful life, and can only focus on 'getting by'. Every time I read about one of these murder / suicides I fully expect them to be in my home town.

Sorry to ramble on, one thought just led to another.