E. Fuller Torrey and Doris A. Fuller: The Potential Killers We Let Loose - WSJ.com

This is even more pertinent today as Obama has outlined his reliance on health care professionals to interrogate and identify individuals who own guns, who in seeking medical care, become suspected as potential enemies of the people.  A major problem is government treatment itself! Government mental health practices (as with many things in government) tend toward the lazy. Government mental health practice has been to, in the majority, to help the mildly mentally ill and ignore or not understand how to treat the severely and dangerously mentally ill. Again, Government is not the solution, but a major contributor to the problem. How could anyone, especially Obama and Biden, expect more inept governmental malpractice to help? m/r

E. Fuller Torrey and Doris A. Fuller: The Potential Killers We Let Loose - WSJ.com
from December 18, 2012
... Even if you ban guns completely, there are many alternative weapons available for use by untreated severely mentally ill persons who are so inclined.

Knives, for example. On the same day Adam Lanza killed 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Min Yingjun stabbed 22 children at an elementary school in central China. Similar assaults using knives killed about 20 and wounded more than 50 children in China last year. Almost all the attacks were carried out by severely mentally ill men. So maybe we should ban knives.

What about cars? In 1999 Steven Abrams, diagnosed with schizophrenia, drove his car onto a school playground in California, killing two young children. He had been hospitalized for psychiatric problems and had talked of killing children. Also in California, Marie West, diagnosed with bipolar disorder and with 19 previous hospitalizations, intentionally ran over an elderly man in 2000. The following year David Attias, diagnosed with bipolar disorder and previously hospitalized, drove his car onto a sidewalk in the Golden State, killing four and injuring nine. He then got out of his car and said he was an "angel of death." Perhaps we should ban cars as well.

The heart of this problem is not the availability of weapons but the abundance of individuals with severe mental disorders who are not being treated.

Severe mental disorders are defined by the National Advisory Mental Health Council as including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, autism and the severe forms of major depression, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 7.7 million Americans currently qualify for the first three diagnoses, with 3.5 million of them receiving no treatment at any given time.

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