HereWeGoAgain
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- Dec 15, 2010
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Been letting normal 6 year olds play with your .38 dumbass?Normal children can have weapons, dumbass.Far more expensive than families and friends taking responsibility as their brother's, son's, father's keeper. We do not let children have or play with weapons as we know it is inherently dangerous and we care for our children. Sadly the one's we care about can slip more toward the point where they cannot adequately be responsible for themselves again. We may not be able to cure their condition, but we can and most of us do take many of the means of deadly violence away from them. If you brother went blind would you let him drive his car just because he had paid for it and it belonged to him?Has nothing to do with billionaires. Has to do with those close at hand, friends and family not taking responsibility for their sick.When the nut ball is armed and attacking police or other citizens with deadly weapons, they are pretty well equipped. Where were this man's family and friends that should have been the first to see his mental state? If he had come at me or mine with a knife and sword, I would have dealt with it in a similar manner.Maybe if there had been a social worker there when they tried to help him earlier he could have been directed towards actual help. It wouldn't have hurt to have one there anyway. The police are not equipped to address people having mental health issues.
Maybe they have tried. I don't know. It's really hard to get people the help they need. We prefer to see to the needs of billionaires.
Mental health care is expensive. Prohibitively so for many.
When they get unsteady at the wheel we take their keys. When they are erratic, unstable and talking of or committing violence we take their weapons and try to get them help. Help or no help, we do not leave them armed and dangerous. This isn't the break down of society due to trickle up. This is the breakdown of family and person responsibility for those around you at the individual level.
Unless they have somewhere to go you can't take from them forever and in all cases. It's not hard to find a sword or other weapon.
I had my own firearms at eight....