Did right wing talk cause the Tucscon shooting rampage? Wrong question.

Did right wing talk cause the Tucscon shooting rampage?

-- Wrong question. There is crazy talk all over the Internet and airwaves nowadays, and only some listen.

Why is the mentally ill still getting guns?

-- Another wrong question (the Tucson shooter didn't have any medical court orders against him)



SO WHAT IS THE RIGHT QUESTION TO ASK ABOUT HOW TO STOP THIS KIND OF RAMPAGE SHOOTER????



The Virginia Tech rampage shooter and the Tucson rampage shooter both have this in common: they were young students who were frightening the other students in otherwise normal, ordinary class settings, with mentally ill behavior.

Both the Virginia Tech rampage shooter and the Tucson rampage shooter created concern among other students and administrators with their odd behavior in otherwise normal, non-abusive interactions with other students, so much so that the schools took action. In Virginia Tech's action, the kid was ordered by the local court to attend counseling in the University Counseling Center. In Pima County Community College's action, the student was suspended and asked to not return without an acceptable mental evaluation.

Neither student got any of the help they obviously needed, and that their student fees should have paid for them to get from the student health centers at their schools.

What we have here is a failure of the health care system. When you have psychotic students or borderline psychotic students, and counseling and/or mental health care is deemed necessary by their schools, in both cases the at risk person was simply ignored or kicked out. Instead of having a person who frightened everyone be actually evaluated and/or get some intake or attention, both school systems were really negligent or dismissive of their own role in the student's mental health breakdown.

That kind of thing doesn't happen in advanced societies, except if, like America, we have the lack of health care availability you expect to see in a third world country!