Michael1942's Blog

Yesterday’s tragedy in Connecticut has and will certainly bring the  out the debates and shouts for more or less firearm laws but the facts about the shooter appears to be similar to the shooters in the other incidents. These folks were mentally ill, intelligent and in need of more help than they sometimes received. The Anti and Pro firearms group will have their say but the victims never will. We need to put these issues aside and focus on determining ways of assisting the survivors while looking for ways to identify the people who committed and could commit these terrible crimes. It has sometimes been determined after background examination that these shooters have had or still have mental issues. Is it possible to legislate for this? Can we determine a future  psychotic breaK?, probably not but we need to put the firearm issue on the back burner and look at the mental health part of the equation. This may be a better use of our energy.