Mass shootings lead to talk, but little action, on mental illness

[HAB911]

(or gun control)

TALLAHASSEE — In the days after five people were shot and killed in Fort Lauderdale's airport, some elected officials adopted a familiar routine.

As news spread that the suspected gunman told FBI agents in Alaska that he was hearing voices, Florida officials called for improvements to mental health care and tougher measures to keep guns away from people with severe psychological disorders.

The Jan. 6 mass shooting was just the latest to be followed by hand-wringing from politicians, particularly gun-rights supporters, who blamed shortcomings in the mental health system for the tragedy.

Despite years connecting mental illness and mass shootings, lawmakers in both parties have been reluctant to pass major legislation taking firearms out of the hands of people diagnosed with severe disorders.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/mass-shootings-lead-to-talk-but-little-action-on-mental-illness/2312050

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

1. Are you thinking this will improve any time soon?

Republicans’ Abysmal Record on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Funding:
https://www.dpcc.senate.gov/?p=issue&id=520

You can continue trying to band aid the real problem by passing laws on guns but why work to fix the cause?

[Marengo]

2. What kind of action would you like to see?

[Eleanors38]

3. There is a 5th Amendment of which LIBERALS. and CONSERVATIVES should ALL be aware...

Did I say this correctly? Is it in proper form? Will this statement be challenged?

[melm00se]

5. Get with the program

Didn't you know that the Bill of Rights only applies when you support with the issue but if you oppose the issue, the Bill of Rights is outdated/out of touch with the situation?

[kudzu22]

4. I agree that something needs to be done, but...

other than the people already blocked from ownership by reason of being adjudicated mentally defective, who else can we reasonably exclude from ownership? Whose rights will we take away without due process? If someone had a foolproof method of predicting who would become a spree killer in the future, we could add them, maybe. But that predictive ability does not exist as far as I know.

[pablo_marmol]

6. Action? Expecting a Controller in a position of power to take ACTION?!?!?!

I thought that the only thing required vis-a-vis gun violence was talking a good game. Stupid me!

http://213ajq29v6vk19b76q3534cx.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Special-Feature-K-Harris.pdf