KY Jon,
Your point is well stated. But I wonder if the problem is less about mental illness (which has always been with us), and more about PHARMACOLOGY.
We have an epidemic of over-prescription of [bizarrely] legal drug, for all manner of issues, whether those "issues" be real, exagerrated or imagined.
If every time somebody said they were "depressed" they were told to stop eating processed complex carbohydrates, go to bed earlier, and start walking...rather than be "prescribed" something...99% of most ills could be fixed.
The common thread with each of these shootings the gun-grabbers keep breathlessly reporting on is:
A) 18-25 yr old male
B) prescription drugs
C) history of mental health issues
D) social isolation by way of an unhealthy fixation on video games and "social media"
If stupid parents would throw away the video game player and processed food, and then take a kid hiking and show him how to use a fishing rod and build a fire, throw a damn ball...boys would get the building blocks to being men.
Instead, they're just boys that got older. And they're directionless, and weird, and socially awkward.
We're not going to abandon the 2nd Amendment because these 'man-boys' keep blowing a gasket. I feel for them. It's their parents who deserve to be flogged.
- Nudge
Damn I like that, Nudge. Very, very well-stated. Thank you!
JHR
