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Omaha Shooting Kid

freeheeler
freeheeler
The news is full of reports about the shooting in the Omaha mall. Several of the news stories I've read on the web have zeroed in on the fact that the kid was depressed.

A similar thing happened with the shooting at the college last year. There was another big noise about mental illness.

People were in two camps about it:

Talk radio and the majority of articles I came across were full of how we should be afraid of us and how we should deny us guns (hunter here, not going to happen) and hospitalize us and throw away the key.

Others, the minority, said that we should have better access to health care.

Related issue; the only positive thing that I can see comming from Bush's attrocious war is, with all of the poor soldiers comming back with PTSD, there may be more emphasis on treating mental illness.

What do you all think?
deleted_user
deleted_user
i think there should be some form of limitation on who can own a gun, for example, are people with a criminal record allowed guns?
I dunno, i live in britain, we don't do guns!

But I think there need to be stricter regulations, like maybe some mental illnesses shouldn't qualify. Just my opinion.
beckyp
beckyp
There should be better access to mental health care. It should be treated just like any other illness by the insurance companies and they should pay the same as they do other physical illnesses. There should be better education on mental illness to the general public.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Oh man I had exactly the same concerns when I heard. BP is not the same as phycotic, they do try to lump us all into the same melting pot. That's gonna go over real big with my custody battle for my 5 yr old. Why are the media and political profesionals even doctors so niave about the facts of mental illness. it actually scares me.
deleted_user
deleted_user
there should definitely be parity in mental health care

as for the shooting, i dont know all the facts, but it is horrid

as for gun control, i believe there are too many guns around and too many angry people... and this, statistically, mentally ill people are less prone to violence than the general population

***stepping off soapbox***
deleted_user
deleted_user
Its hard not to be depressed in the troubled time we live in ,espessially if your just the working class or disabled class.Seems to me the NONdepressed are liveing on finacial easy street or in some self deluded la la land .How can they pretend to judge us.
bbipolar
bbipolar
Fazer there is a one week criminal and mental health check before you can buy a gun. It's just that they are so easy to get for other people who buy them and give them to you. Not everyone knows that their buddy wouldn't pass the check. They are very prevelant in TX unfortunatley. I know many people that have deer rifles, shot guns, and pistols. It's just taken for granted. Three or four guns in a gun wrack doesn't stop anyone who wants one to get it. It's also legal to display your rifle on the back of glass in your pick up truck if you have a gun license. That's USA for you. We still operate in the 19th century. Mental health doesn't exist as far as most normie Texans think of it. It's just an excuse for not wanting to work or being primadona.
bbipolar
bbipolar
As far as the kid in Omaha who shot 9 people in the mall, bet you anything that the media will portray him as bipolar in manic state. Just wait. One more blow for mental health.
deleted_user
deleted_user
its easy to get a gun here lincoln/omaha/ nebraska in general and carry it, we have a concealed weapons law allowing carrying a gun, this is by far the reddest and most reactionary state i have ever lived in, its shameful
deleted_user
deleted_user
I wish sometimes that they would put me in a hospital for a while. I could use the vacation and the drugs are good.
I don't condone what these folks do but in my condition I have to say "there but for the grace of God."
I think we all need to make good decision on weapon ownership based on our personal situation. SRC
freeheeler
freeheeler
Hey lost. Do you know of any studies that show that the mentally ill are less prone to violence then the general population?

If so, could you send me a message? If I can find something like that, I'll write an op-ed for the newspaper and try to get on a local radio show. Did these things after last year's college shooting.
BettyB
BettyB
free(org) I would fight for the 2nd amendment right. I am rolling up my sleeves. Yes, indeedy. The right to bare arms.

Yes, I think so.

faz(1) There are restrictions.

bb(6) Agree.

lost(8) Nawwwwwwwwwww. Nebraska rocks!
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