Originally Posted By: The Meat
Originally Posted By: Barry the Pirate
I was curious too.

The fact is that these things are not the normal way things are. That's why they're news. The truth is, in a free society, or even a not so free society, the government can't keep an eye on everyone. Nor can the medical system. People are simply going to slip through whatever kind of screening might be given.

It's going to happen, hopefully not often. You just can't stop everything.


Wait, whoa... back up a sec. The medical system has now let 4 insane motherfuckers go on shooting rampages. Seung-Hui Cho, Jared Lee Loughner, James Holmes, and Nidal Malik Hasan in the past several years. That goes just a tad beyond 'a few falling through the cracks.' That's just the mental health system being completely moribund and useless.

All those motherfuckers had a paper trail and medical histories. I'll bet Jerkules' dirty whore that Holmes has a paper trail too.


In the grand scheme, with all due respect for what has happened, it's exactly a few falling through the cracks. But i will back up to this point: this is news because it seldom happens on this scale. What usually happens when someone with whatever mental illness shortcurcuits, it's usually a loved one that takes the brunt of the damage. And it happens so often that it's not news. So I think you're right, just not in the way you meant. In the picture of this grand spectacle, the mental health system probably failed us. And on the smaller scale it fails us daily. Hadn't thought it through that far.

That's what I love about this place. Sometimes we can change each others minds.
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