{"id":9379,"date":"2013-12-26T18:26:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T02:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=9379"},"modified":"2014-01-05T19:06:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T03:06:57","slug":"control-mentally-deranged-individuals-to-protect-the-innocent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/control-mentally-deranged-individuals-to-protect-the-innocent\/","title":{"rendered":"Control Mentally Deranged Individuals to Protect the Innocent"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Controlby Ann Coulter –
\nMass shootings correlate with not locking up crazy people. We\u2019re not worried about school kids being systematically gunned down by angry husbands, gang members or antique gun collectors. We\u2019re worried about a psychotic showing up in a public place and shooting everyone in sight.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of the mass shooting tragedies in America and in other parts of the world are united by one clear thread: “They all were committed by visibly crazy people, known to be nuts but not institutionalized. Mental illness was blindingly clear in the cases of Seung-Hui Cho (Virginia Tech), Maj. Nidal Hasan (Fort Hood), Jared Loughner (Arizona shopping mall), James Holmes (Colorado movie theater), and a dozen other mass shootings in the past few decades,” correctly observes Ann Coulter. But this obvious truth is ignored by the Democrats and the mainstream progressive and leftist media.<\/p>\n

Coulter notes: “Democrats absolutely will not address the one thing that was screaming out from all of the mass shootings: a crazy person committing the crime. We can\u2019t medicate them and we can\u2019t lock them up because the ACLU has handcuffed society\u2019s ability to deal rationally with the mentally disturbed.”<\/p>\n

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Mental Health Laws Are Trouble for Democrats<\/strong>
\nby Ann Coulter – 12\/18\/2013<\/p>\n

Instead of always taking incoming fire, how about Republicans start sending some back? It\u2019s great that they stopped HillaryCare, but if they had actually fixed health care by forcing health insurance plans to be sold in a competitive free market, there would have been no opportunity for shyster Democrats to foist Obamacare on us.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fantastic that we caught the Boston Marathon bombers, but why don\u2019t Republicans fix an immigration system that brings foreign terrorists and mass murderers to our country? Let the Democrats explain why we couldn\u2019t make room for a Danish surgeon because we needed another Chechnyan terrorist.<\/p>\n

Mass shootings correlate with not locking up crazy people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And it\u2019s terrific that Republicans have managed to block sweeping gun bans after every mass shooting over the past few years \u2014 opposition to new gun restrictions has more than doubled since Newtown \u2014 but how about they actually do something to stop the next mass murder?<\/p>\n

All these shootings are united by one clear thread: They all were committed by visibly crazy people, known to be nuts but not institutionalized.<\/p>\n

Mental illness was blindingly clear in the cases of Seung-Hui Cho (Virginia Tech), Maj. Nidal Hasan (Fort Hood), Jared Loughner (Arizona shopping mall), James Holmes (Colorado movie theater), and a dozen other mass shootings in the past few decades.<\/p>\n

But in every instance, Democrats\u2019 response was: Let\u2019s ban high-capacity magazines! Let\u2019s limit private gun sales! Let\u2019s publish the names of everyone who owns a registered gun!<\/p>\n

Mass shootings don\u2019t correlate with any of these things. They correlate with not locking up crazy people. We\u2019re not worried about school kids being systematically gunned down by angry husbands, gang members or antique gun collectors. We\u2019re worried about a psychotic showing up in a public place and shooting everyone in sight.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s absolutely no point in making it more difficult to buy firearms at gun shows \u2014 unless gun dealers have no trouble getting files on the mentally ill. Until we do that, we\u2019re wasting our time.<\/p>\n

Fixating on guns after a crazy person commits mass murder is like draining the ocean to find a ring you dropped.<\/p>\n

Fixating on guns after a crazy person commits mass murder is like draining the ocean to find a ring you dropped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Liberals can take the position that crazy people living on the street and filling up our prisons and homeless shelters are a necessary evil that is a consequence of their idee fixe. But then, when one of their pet victims shoots up a movie theater, they don\u2019t get to blame it on guns.<\/p>\n

In every one of these mass shootings, there was someone in a position to say before the attack, \u201cTrust me, this person is a psycho.\u201d Try getting Jared Loughner or James Holmes through any mental illness hearing in which they\u2019re required to speak. (Though both might end up being offered their own shows on MSNBC.)<\/p>\n

If someone was brought back from the 1950s to today, he\u2019d tell us: \u201cI couldn\u2019t help but notice that all the people who committed mass shootings were batsh*t crazy. Why were they not locked up or forced to take medication?\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019d have to say, \u201cBecause some people \u2014 we call them \u2018liberals\u2019 \u2014 get a warm feeling of self-righteousness by defending the right of the deranged to crap in a shoebox, carefully label it and put it in a closet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats absolutely will not address the one thing that was screaming out from all of the mass shootings: a crazy person committing the crime. We can\u2019t medicate them and we can\u2019t lock them up because the ACLU has handcuffed society\u2019s ability to deal rationally with the mentally disturbed.<\/p>\n

Not only will Democrats refuse to address the problem of the mentally ill on their own, but they will fight to the last ditch to protect any crazy person\u2019s right not to take his medication.<\/p>\n

Liberals are so determined not to stigmatize anybody that their solution is always to make all of society suffer instead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

At some point in the 1980s, not being \u201cjudgmental\u201d became the highest form of virtue \u2014 although the left is plenty judgmental about things they don\u2019t like, such as white males, smokers, Christianity, Wal-Mart, Fox News, talk radio and NASCAR.<\/p>\n

Liberals are so determined not to stigmatize anybody that their solution is always to make all of society suffer instead:<\/p>\n

\u2013 To avoid hurting Muslims\u2019 feelings, everyone has to strip to his underwear at the airport.<\/p>\n

\u2013 So no one feels excluded, we\u2019re not allowed to say \u201cMerry Christmas!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 To avoid singling out gays, the government and media lied to Americans for a decade about the coming explosion of heterosexual AIDS. (We\u2019re still waiting.)<\/p>\n

\u2013 To stop people from noticing patterns, the media bend over backward to avoid telling us the race of dangerous criminals on the loose.<\/p>\n

\u2013 To prevent hurt feelings, everybody gets an \u201cA.\u201d<\/p>\n

And to avoid \u201cstigmatizing\u201d the mentally ill, society has to live with the occasional mass murder.<\/p>\n

Liberal logic: “to avoid \u201cstigmatizing\u201d the mentally ill, society has to live with the occasional mass murder”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

These anti-stigmatization rules don\u2019t even help the people they claim to be protecting. But defending ridiculous rules that ruin things for everyone else makes liberals feel heroic.<\/p>\n

Rather than constantly playing defense on gun rights, why don\u2019t Republicans force Democrats into taking uncomfortable positions for once? Make them choose between ticking off the ACLU or ticking off soccer moms \u2014 as well as all of sane America. (Don\u2019t kid yourself: The non-insane are still a potent voting bloc in this country.)<\/p>\n

Republicans should say, \u201cWe owe it to the memory of these kids to unclog the regulations that prevent us from forcing psychotics to take their medication.\u201d<\/p>\n

HT: Human Events<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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