Jeff Weise, killer, and political football
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I haven't had much to say about Weise's murder-suicide. That's
mostly because the calls for gun control as a result have been
relatively muted; I suppose the gun bigots are afraid that people
will notice that the killer stole his guns from a police
officer. But that doesn't stop liberals of ANY stripe from
getting all worked up about the chance to dance in some blood. I'm referring, specifically, to a recent editorial in my hometown newspaper, the Austin-American Statesman. I don't have a link because I am no longer willing to put up with their badly broken registration system, and I read the editorial in their print version. That editorial decried the lack of availability of mental health care to children (read: teenagers) and the stigma associated with seeking that health care. The subtext, not quite explicitly stated, was that giving all Americans access to mental health care at government expense might possibly have "saved" Weise, or at worst, identified him and prevented the shootings. That pissed me off, because I know from prior reading about the incident that Weise had been in getting in trouble for years, was seeing a therapist and taking Prozac as of 06/2004. Michelle Malkin has the details. Sheesh. It seems to me that many, perhaps even most, of the school shooters were on some sort of anti-depressant or anti-psychotic drug, had been in counseling, and had had repeated encounters with the law (albeit not always of a particularly serious nature). In short -- they were known problems, and they were getting "help" that doesn't seem to have helped. I find it utterly inconceivable that anyone could use such incidents as a springboard for more psychiatric intrusion into the lives and minds of schoolchildren. The problem kids are identified and given treatment (often, perhaps, given treatment instead of, rather than combined with, punishment). The problem is that the treatment doesn't work. |
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