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2013-03-10 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by badanov 2013-03-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Hear, hear. Mental illness can sometimes be in the mind of the beholder (see Stalin, Joy Behar, etal.). (pun intended)....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-03-10 17:25|| 2013-03-10 17:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Well said.

Here is the one I like.

Joe's kid comes cross/wise with somebody working at the school. Joe goes down there to find out what happened, he is directed to the principles office. As a way to prevent abuse, school policy requires somebody from the school clinic to also attend. Now at this point it does not matter if Joe is calm or loud, the school clinic has been deputized to determine if Joe is dangerous, and if labeled as such can summarily end Joe's ability to own firearms. Joe has challenged the State on something. Puts a lot of power into a couple of people, and if they decide Joe was irrational - even if he was not - he can appeal, hire a lawyer, take some tests, then go put his word above a certified health worker and a school principle with a judge or other local magistrate. All on his own dime and time.

Also, I had an appointment at a hospital and Obamacare had just passed, so they had new paperwork for me to sign. In that contract was a brief statement saying my records could be opened if I ever made a threat IIRC any government official or foreign dignitary. So if I wanted to tell the King of Sod to go FOAD - there they go.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-03-10 17:37|| 2013-03-10 17:37|| Front Page Top

#3 My girlfriend's mother was recently murdered at breakfast by her 26 year old, diagnosed severely schizophrenic son.

Everybody knew of the problem. The county therapeutic aid specialists agreed that she and her mother were at risk of violence at some point, and she'd been trying for a year to find some sort of treatment and residence for him so that her father didn't throw the lad out in the street for the safety of the rest of the family, where he would have died -- even when medicated he had the life skills of primary schoolchild. However, there was no way to force him to accept treatment once he was of legal age, and so when the Archangel Michael told him to kill Grandma, he calmly got a knife and stuck it into her back. Then he sat outside to wait for the nice policemen, as his mother told him to do while his grandmother bled to death in her husband's arms.

That is the kind of mental illness that needs to be kept away from guns and locked up. Not someone with an angry soon-to-be ex-wife.

Posted by trailing wife 2013-03-10 19:34|| 2013-03-10 19:34|| Front Page Top

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