Post-Shootings Rush to Legislate on Surveillance, Mental Health Is Dangerous

Be it induced psychotic breakdown caused by street drugs, pharmaceutical drugs, peer pressure, school pressure, job pressure, life pressure, chemical or frequency mind control … which may be contributing to these violent episodes  branching from preexisting states of schizophrenia, delusions, hallucinations, incoherence, or just plane old prejudices and hatred having distorted perceptions of right and wrong …. mental health is a ticking time bomb … and guns have become and easy accessible fuse … .

If a child is caught with a weapon in school or any other place … it shouldn’t be taken lightly … and expelling or sending that child to jail is not enough … the root cause of them possessing a gun should be addressed and the whole family should be looked into … there is a problem somewhere ..

Post-Shootings Rush to Legislate on Surveillance, Mental Health Is Dangerous

Author activist Dean Spade. (Screengrab: The Nation)HERE Monday, 31 December 2012 10:27 By Laura Flanders

“We have a long history in the US of giving people involuntary medical treatment and using mental institutions to lock up people who are “different” or threatening to social norms,” says Spade. What will actually make us all safer is more accessible, voluntary mental health care. About one in four adults suffers from a diagnosable mental illness, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, but millions of those who report needing mental health services don’t receive care because of its cost or its negative stigma.

“So many people who could use mental health care do not reach out for it because they are afraid that they will be locked up involuntarily if they reach out to a provider,” says Spade.

At his press conference announcing the task force to reduce gun violence, President Obama said, “We’re gonna need to work on making access to mental health care at least as easy as access to a gun.” Full article HERE