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This is a way of making myself write something coherent and grammatically correct almost every day. I'm opinionated and need an outlet. I'm also prone to flights of fancy. Thanks for stopping by. |
| Some people seem to think that if we ban all guns we will reduce or eliminate violence. But crazy people will still be crazy. Banning guns is like a band-aid on a gaping wound. It doesn't heal or stop the bleeding. The high rise in homelessness was attributed to mental illness, then swept under the rug. As the rights of the mentally ill became protected, which ideally was a good thing, more people lost their protection and safe-keeping. Families couldn't force an aunt or uncle or grandparent into a "home", so they ended up on the street after losing all their money and possessions. They took up company with the alcoholics and drug addicts who just couldn't hold onto a job or abide by rental rules. Several decades have gone by and their numbers have increased, but we no longer have asylums or "mental hospitals". With more ADD, absentee fathers, over-stimulated children, and more irresponsible parents, we have a new generation of people less than fully functional and unhappy, ready to go on a rampage to release their anger. The population is growing as well, so we have a larger percentage of a larger number of people who can't manage their anger. The only way to reduce violence is to address these more basic problems. Schools are already over burdened trying to cover the basics of learning, but it's the only central place to address a community's needs for moral training, respect for human life and rights, and determine "normal" development. We need less time on sex education and more on parenting, paying bills, and citizenship. The church and the synagogue are failing us here and would reach only a small segment of society anyway. It's not the business owner or manager's job to diagnose illness. This is a bigger problem than I'm qualified to answer. We all need to give some serious thought for the sake of our own future how we address the growing problem of dangerous mental illness (the "I'm okay, you're not okay", and the worse "I'm not okay, and you're not okay either"). |
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