Wild West Politics?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Oh good, it's working.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Maybe someone did notice, but they were afraid that if they said anything, he'd shoot them.

He was suspended from school by a task force of four policemen who told both him and his father that he required treatment. They did not phone. Four cops personally delivered the message.

As I understand it, schizophrenics typically are not threats. IOW I am answering my own question for lack of a better response, without sufficient facts, and to only prime the pump for hard facts. This would be the exception. Therefore no one had expectations of a threat.

I do believe this nation may eventually define mental illness with the seriousness that was applied to drunk driving and healthy eating. For example, four cops delivered the message. At what point should family take responsibility? A question that a public really should have answers for. Currently, most everyone cannot answer that question, in part, probably because we don't have answers even at the highest levels of government.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by tw

From that cited LA Times article of 14 Jan 2010:

Apparently that is all they can do. What power and responsibility does a father have?

They touched on that on 60 Minutes last night: the school did all they were able to do (and only after he posted a video he made of him walking around campus ranting and raving...his class disruptions and disjointed contributions in class were not enough for action)...which isn't much. A co-worker often reminds us our middle name is Community, but sometimes it seems we're sitting ducks in a community that draws all sorts of people, and is about diversity and freedom, is idealistic and trusting by choice if not by nature.

[Undertoad]

Exactly. He's not criminally insane. He's social norm-challenged.

[Undertoad]

Aaaand this is what it's come to: CNN apologizes after a guest use the word "crosshairs".

[classicman]

CNN has come a long way from the days of "Crossfire"
Too bad.

[TheMercenary]

PC gone wild. First they all need to note that none of the discussions or statements by talk radio, or anything any person in the political spotlight, or by any of the extremes on the political right or left were a cause of of this violent or in anyway contributed to it. Then we can get back a sense of sanity. It is funny to see them react this way when all the evidence is to the contradicition.

[Shawnee123]

They need to work harder, like Bill O's producer accosting poor dumb old Snooki to find out her opinion on Obamacare.




What a bunch of morons.

[TheMercenary]

Another wacko joins the list...

James Eric Fuller, 63, who was shot in the knee, had told The Post on Friday, the day before his arrest, that top Republican figures should be tortured -- and their ears severed.

"There would be torture and then an ear necklace, with [Minnesota US Rep.] Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin's ears toward the end, because they're small, female ears, and then Limbaugh, Hannity and the biggest ears of all, Cheney's, in the center," Fuller said.

Also on Friday, Fuller stopped by the home of gunman Jared Lee Loughner and told a neighbor he was going to forgive the shooter, The Associated Press said.

On Saturday, Fuller was carted away for a psychiatric exam after disrupting the town-hall meeting by taking a photo of Tucson Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries and shouting, "You're dead!"

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nationa...#ixzz1BS9WkLbX

[ZenGum]

So this Fuller guy ... does he have a gun? Just wondering.

After the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, we (Australia) made it a law that crazy people aren't allowed to have guns. I haven't checked really closely, but I can't recall a crazy-person-with-gun incident since. Sure, they can get knives and stuff and still be dangerous, but they're much less dangerous.
Not sure if it would work in the USA, though.

[Griff]

Zen let's look at that idea with a cellar example. We can all agree that UG is insane, now who is going to disarm the bastard?

[Lamplighter]

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

So this Fuller guy ... does he have a gun? Just wondering.

After the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, we (Australia) made it a law that crazy people aren't allowed to have guns. I haven't checked really closely, but I can't recall a crazy-person-with-gun incident since. Sure, they can get knives and stuff and still be dangerous, but they're much less dangerous.
Not sure if it would work in the USA, though.

In this country the problem is to define crazy... Bipolar? History of Depression? PTSD? Any thing at all, or should it be defined?

[tw]

Where in the world is the WBC? On 17 Jan 2011 was this:

WBC to preach to the world from the Mike Gallagher Show, in lieu of picketing the funerals of those dead from the GodSmack in Tucson, Arizona where God sent the shooter to punish this nation for her proud sins.

Maybe they need Limbaugh to write their material for them. Oh. Limbaugh is off on a new campaign of hate. This time about Nicole Kidman's baby.

[Happy Monkey]

He's moved on from being incredulous that anyone could understand Chinese?