Robert A. DeLeo began his third term as House speaker Wednesday by announcing that, following the Newtown, Conn., school massacre, he wants to bring together lawmakers and specialists to study the “dangerous intersection of guns and mental illness in schools and throughout society.”
“As we mourn the lives that fell there, we grapple with solutions,” DeLeo said. “While much of this hopefully will take place on the federal level, I believe that we must do whatever we can on the state level as well.”
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How about we do a study of the intersection of mental illness and services provided by the state, as promised by the state when the legislature closed all the state mental hospitals and cut direct services, overseen by accountable state employees? Wouldn't want to do that, would we.
How about the disastrous intersection of idiot politicians and idiot voters?
The intersection of guns and mental illness. No one can definitely determine the mental state of an individual a good percentage of the time, even the professionals. The only answer is to stem the flood of guns in the US.