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Here we go again; yet another mentally ill person shoots a bunch of people.
Here's the key, people: it's NOT about the guns. It's about mental illness. No sane person walks into a cinema, work, a mall, or a school and just starts shooting people. They're mentally ill, and that's the key here. We don't take proper care of the mentally ill.
There are plenty of laws out there about gun purchasing and gun ownership; the Columbine shooters got their guns illegally and demonstrate how the laws don't work. Taking away the guns just doesn't work; let's not forget that just a few weeks ago a guy used a bow and arrow to shoot people, and today in Beijing a guy stabbed 22 kids at a school with a knife.
The REAL problem is that we don't take proper care of the mentally ill. The drugs are too expensive, so is the health care. Hospitalizing a mentally ill person is hideously expensive; I know a family who used to have quite a bit of money who now live in a trailer park because they have a son with severe bipolar disorder. You also can't leave the seriously mentally ill people alone; the ones that are really bad off NEED a handler, a caretaker, to make sure drugs are taken as prescribed and that the patient gets the therapy and treatment they need. But this is the land of the almighty dollar, where drugs are hideously expensive, so is the healthcare, and Reagan shut down all the hospitals for the mentally ill.
If we REALLY want to stop this kind of shooting we MUST make healthcare and drugs for the mentally ill easily accessible and give them the proper care they really need. Passing more laws against guns just won't cut it.
Here's the key, people: it's NOT about the guns. It's about mental illness. No sane person walks into a cinema, work, a mall, or a school and just starts shooting people. They're mentally ill, and that's the key here. We don't take proper care of the mentally ill.
There are plenty of laws out there about gun purchasing and gun ownership; the Columbine shooters got their guns illegally and demonstrate how the laws don't work. Taking away the guns just doesn't work; let's not forget that just a few weeks ago a guy used a bow and arrow to shoot people, and today in Beijing a guy stabbed 22 kids at a school with a knife.
The REAL problem is that we don't take proper care of the mentally ill. The drugs are too expensive, so is the health care. Hospitalizing a mentally ill person is hideously expensive; I know a family who used to have quite a bit of money who now live in a trailer park because they have a son with severe bipolar disorder. You also can't leave the seriously mentally ill people alone; the ones that are really bad off NEED a handler, a caretaker, to make sure drugs are taken as prescribed and that the patient gets the therapy and treatment they need. But this is the land of the almighty dollar, where drugs are hideously expensive, so is the healthcare, and Reagan shut down all the hospitals for the mentally ill.
If we REALLY want to stop this kind of shooting we MUST make healthcare and drugs for the mentally ill easily accessible and give them the proper care they really need. Passing more laws against guns just won't cut it.
Now With Textiles
After a long hiatus, I'm back.
2016 sucked for many reasons, including sending our soul cat Marra back to the stars. Tshirt designs and a poster was all that got created for a while.
Then there was a happy accident that got my creative side going again, and I've been greedily learning ProCreate. The iPad Pro with Apple Pencil is now my favorite way to draw and ink and I'm really delighted with how well the results print out. There's also been the acquisition of a LeClerc Nilus 45" floor loom (dammit Tara) and I'm now weaving to use up all the yarn I'm spinning.
We also have added to the household a snow Bengal named Kohala, who will sho
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Whut?
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