cked up in psychiatric hospitals for their own good and for the protection of society. The ACLU and the left changed that by successfully suing to get them released out onto the streets. So now they make up much of our homeless population. From there many have predictably ended up in our prison system. The rate of mental illness in U.S. prisons is five times greater than in the regular population and people with serious mental illness are three to four times more likely to be violent than others.
While access to guns has decreased there is one common denominator that most if not all mass shooters reflects which is mental illness. While some liberals are finally gingerly mentioning mental illness now most liberals dare to state the obvious - the mass shooters should have been locked up when there were telltale signs. In 2005 Virginia Special Justice Paul Barnett wrote in an order that future Virginia Tech mass shooter Seung-Hui Cho presented an imminent danger to himself as a result of mental illness but instead of committing him to an institution - which would have also removed his ability to buy firearms for his future mass shooting - he only recommended outpatient treatment. The mother of Adam Lanza the Sandy Creek Elementary School shooter who was also one of the victims fatally shot by him had been making plans to have him institutionalized. The mother of Elliot Rodger the 22-year old who went on a shooting and knifing spree in Isla Vista Calif. last month called the police on her son prior to the shooting incident. While in college he tried to push a girl off a ledge.
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cked up in psychiatric hospitals for their own good and for the protection of society. The ACLU and the left changed that by successfully suing to get them released out onto the streets. So now they make up much of our homeless population. From there many have predictably ended up in our prison system. The rate of mental illness in U.S. prisons is five times greater than in the regular population and people with serious mental illness are three to four times more likely to be violent than others.
While access to guns has decreased there is one common denominator that most if not all mass shooters reflects which is mental illness. While some liberals are finally gingerly mentioning mental illness now most liberals dare to state the obvious - the mass shooters should have been locked up when there were telltale signs. In 2005 Virginia Special Justice Paul Barnett wrote in an order that future Virginia Tech mass shooter Seung-Hui Cho presented an imminent danger to himself as a result of mental illness but instead of committing him to an institution - which would have also removed his ability to buy firearms for his future mass shooting - he only recommended outpatient treatment. The mother of Adam Lanza the Sandy Creek Elementary School shooter who was also one of the victims fatally shot by him had been making plans to have him institutionalized. The mother of Elliot Rodger the 22-year old who went on a shooting and knifing spree in Isla Vista Calif. last month called the police on her son prior to the shooting incident. While in college he tried to push a girl off a ledge.
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