With Ronald Reagan it was the homeless that suffered from mental illness while the income equity grew ever wider with Reaganomics and deregulation.
George H. W. Bush stated the rhetoric of former President Reagan for the exact same reasons while failing to see the real problem in his economic policies costing him re-election.
Then George W. Bush blamed the Virginia Tech Massacre on mental health problems. Never once did he explore the REAL TRUTH in that military style weapons had flooded the country while causing tens of thousands of deaths per year.
Now, there has been a stabbing in Texas of fifteen people of which all survived the attack and the focus then has to be mental health issues once again.
Avoiding responsibility in realizing the only effective way to end these tragedies, decrease the gun violence in our cities and end cross border empowerment of drug cartels is to ban military style weapons in the USA and not the same 'ole, same 'ole excuse of the GOP; mental health.
CENTER CITY - April 9, 2013 (WPVI) -- Former Pennsylvania (click here) Governor Ed Rendell and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter took part in a rally Tuesday morning in support of gun control legislation.
A spokesperson for the senator released the following statement Tuesday morning:
George H. W. Bush stated the rhetoric of former President Reagan for the exact same reasons while failing to see the real problem in his economic policies costing him re-election.
Then George W. Bush blamed the Virginia Tech Massacre on mental health problems. Never once did he explore the REAL TRUTH in that military style weapons had flooded the country while causing tens of thousands of deaths per year.
Now, there has been a stabbing in Texas of fifteen people of which all survived the attack and the focus then has to be mental health issues once again.
Avoiding responsibility in realizing the only effective way to end these tragedies, decrease the gun violence in our cities and end cross border empowerment of drug cartels is to ban military style weapons in the USA and not the same 'ole, same 'ole excuse of the GOP; mental health.
CENTER CITY - April 9, 2013 (WPVI) -- Former Pennsylvania (click here) Governor Ed Rendell and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter took part in a rally Tuesday morning in support of gun control legislation.
Rendell joined members of the group CeasefirePA outside of the Center City offices of Lehigh Valley Republican senator Pat Toomey.
The group is calling on Toomey to support expanded background checks for prospective gun buyers.
A spokesperson for the senator released the following statement Tuesday morning:
"Senator Toomey appreciates hearing from Pennsylvanians on public safety and firearm policy.
"He is talking to many people in the commonwealth and his colleagues in the Senate in hopes that we can improve our background check system while also protecting second amendment rights."...
In regard to homelessness, George H. W. Bush stated it was a bad decision to release so many mentally disturbed patients from institutions only to live on our streets.
How convenient they were on the streets of our country to blame.
The reason people were released from institutions was the fact their mental illness was reinforced within the institutional setting and they were never going to be well. In order to allow them to achieve of functioning and quality of life they had to be returned to society and work it out for themselves.
Mental Illness is not an excuse for violence. A violent culture that allows criminality in the way of dangerous weapons is the problem. Stating there has to be super computers to handle every mental illness reporting in the USA is not the answer either. Such systems of data are as much an intrusion on privacy as Gun Zealots state registering guns is a privacy issue. Quite frankly, a mental illness registry is more of a privacy issue when one is seeking employment, attempting to buy a house and simply carry on with life. Such a mental health registry will not accomplish anything except victimization of our citizens.
The only problem in the USA is the availability of guns and illegal sales and distribution of them. That is the only problem. Seeking to blame mental health as the reason for violence in our country is a cop out. The entire dialogue surrounding mental health is counter productive to movement of legislation of any kind in the USA.
Mental illness can cause homelessness, but, it alone is not the breath of the homeless problems of the USA. Mental health can be a component to violence, but, tens of thousands of deaths in the USA are not caused only by the mentally ill.
Background checks are a method to seek to limit the illegal sales and distribution of guns in the USA. But, the only effective way of limiting the violence is to ban the instruments that make killing easy. Guns make killing easy. Do we actually want to make killing within the USA easy? Really?
In regard to homelessness, George H. W. Bush stated it was a bad decision to release so many mentally disturbed patients from institutions only to live on our streets.
How convenient they were on the streets of our country to blame.
The reason people were released from institutions was the fact their mental illness was reinforced within the institutional setting and they were never going to be well. In order to allow them to achieve of functioning and quality of life they had to be returned to society and work it out for themselves.
Mental Illness is not an excuse for violence. A violent culture that allows criminality in the way of dangerous weapons is the problem. Stating there has to be super computers to handle every mental illness reporting in the USA is not the answer either. Such systems of data are as much an intrusion on privacy as Gun Zealots state registering guns is a privacy issue. Quite frankly, a mental illness registry is more of a privacy issue when one is seeking employment, attempting to buy a house and simply carry on with life. Such a mental health registry will not accomplish anything except victimization of our citizens.
The only problem in the USA is the availability of guns and illegal sales and distribution of them. That is the only problem. Seeking to blame mental health as the reason for violence in our country is a cop out. The entire dialogue surrounding mental health is counter productive to movement of legislation of any kind in the USA.
Mental illness can cause homelessness, but, it alone is not the breath of the homeless problems of the USA. Mental health can be a component to violence, but, tens of thousands of deaths in the USA are not caused only by the mentally ill.
Background checks are a method to seek to limit the illegal sales and distribution of guns in the USA. But, the only effective way of limiting the violence is to ban the instruments that make killing easy. Guns make killing easy. Do we actually want to make killing within the USA easy? Really?
