School Shooting

The school shooting in Florida reported on 2/16/18 has the cable news gang pontificating about gun control vs mental illness. In Florida, they have announced that they will demolish the school building.  None of this makes much sense. 

This appears to be a shooting by a dangerously maladjusted 19 year old who was allowed to be weird and have an assault rifle. He should have never been allowed to keep an assault rifle or be weird.

‘Kids are like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get’. Raising kids can be tricky and it requires parents to determine whether or not one of their kids is dangerously maladjusted.

When we moved to Dunwoody in 1983, several of my kids said a “weird” kid lived one block over from our house. Soon after that, I heard that family had moved. Later I found out that the Dad put the weird kid in a mental treatment facility. I also found out that the dad and mom got a divorce. That Dad did the right thing and it came at a high cost.  Parents need to know that they may have to make hard decisions

Bad criminal behavior should not be included in the definition of mental illness, unless it resides in the “criminally insane” category and these folks need to be locked up forever.

The classical definitions of mental illness included psychosis exhibited by hallucinations and diagnoses like schizophrenia.

Neurosis and this is usually associated with lots of compulsive behaviors. 

We now have more young people who do not appear to be well-adjusted for lots of reasons.

Spending a boat-load of tax money on mental illness doesn’t sound like it hits the mark. The school shooter and mass shooter problems stem from an unsecure facility problem.

We need to be looking at mitigating “cult indoctrination”, because it relates to our terrorist and college snowflake problems. It should also include inoculations to kill political correctness.

We need to beware of the expansion of the nanny state to mitigate the school shooter problem. There should be some consequences to land on the parents of these shooters, but no consequences for all other parents. 

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader