(October 5, 2015 at 3:30 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: I'm not laying blame on the mentally ill, but thanks for the assumption. My position is that if mental illness is a causality in some cases, then............
I agree that the mentally ill have a higher rate of victimization.
I'm going to stand on my position that we need more mental health identification and treatment
I didn't assume anything. In fact, you were never mentioned specifically, so it looks like the assumption was all yours.:p It has been mentioned multiple times by multiple people in this thread and others that treating the mentally would be a solution for gun violence, so I thought I would counter that. For the record, I didn't consider you in that group.
I agree that we need more mental health identification and treatment. It goes well beyond that in that our whole approach to mental health has to change, but those are two big problems. I live in a city with roughly 40,000 people, and the city didn't even offer pyschiatric care until 2005. Now that they do offer it, it's woefully inadequate. But I could go on and on about the subject...
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
