Gun stocks decline after Connecticut tragedy

We have been having the discussion around here...Once again..

It's not so much about guns as it is about the people.

As... A SHARP pointed out:

We have seen State Hospitals for the Mentally ill closed up or shutdown for years...

And the people dispersed sometimes in the Communities, as maybe safe Citizens maybe not.??

Most are on a dailly treatment of drugs, from local Doctors or Gov sponsored treatment centers..

But still allowed to roam freely, amongst a population, that know little about their condition or possibily their past?...The Majority of them are not extremely dangerous...UNTIL, maybe they do something like what happened in the past week...Some just slip through the cracks....

A generation or two ago they were kept out of mainstream Society; Similiar to a prison, few would have priviledges and be able to leave the areas on weekends or Holidays and have visitors..

Many were put away for life, living only in a dorm or areas, with others like themselves and little connection to the outside world.

Some may have considered it cruel and unusual, but then again those same people didn't want to be bothered or involved in the process either...At least MOST of them.

Gosh I dunno, but I know plenty of Liberals that have guns and hunt or just shoot...

Along with Conservatives too...

A handful or a few thousand on either side are the squeaky wheels.

And some are just a wookety wheel on a shopping cart.

"For every Action, there is almost always an opposite equal Reaction."

Sometimes more severe...?? And kneejerk, especially when humans are involved.

Gun control is not the answer to end these tragedies. The shooter was mentally retarded- but the mother had said on her facebook page that she had NO HELP OR SERVICES AVAILABLE to deal with her sons behavior. She was desperate for help but no one would listen, not even her own community. Maybe it's the reason she withdrew into her own paranoid world of 'end of days' mindset, which was not a healthy environment for a child with mental illness.

The federal government abolished institutionalized treatment and passed laws to have COMMUNITY BASED TREATMENT facilities. The problem is that there was, and still are no provisions for funding these so called community based facilities- ergo- NO facilities. This population of the developmentally disabled need the most help, but get the least. And when tragedy strikes, we all ask why ?

The DD population are very impressionable and will take cues from us on how to act and interact with society but how can they when we ignore their basic needs ? I do hold the mother  responsible- and she paid with her life. But until we as a nation decide to deal with these issues that DD's face, we'll continue to have these tragedies- be it guns, fertilizer & fuel oil, knives or any other weapon of convenience. There are more ways to 'profit' from having programs in place than just how much money it cost or how profitable it needs to be.

How can anyone justify the need to own an semi-automatic assault weapon? How many times have you heard about someone's home being invaded by armed gangs? And if you did how did that work out? Did the homeowner with his/her assault weapon kill the armed gang? Or was he/her shot themselves? I guess we should be able to own a rocket propelled grenade launcher as well. I mean some gang might attack by air. And for people who state that "they could have been killed with a knife or baseball bat" it is always with a gun. Of course we can't do any better than this. We put our children in a car seat that only 5 people in the galaxy can install and make sure they don't have any lead in their toys but stop them from being slaughtered by an evil person with an assault weapon. Nah, we can't stop that. Some poor hunter might need to shoot an entire herd of deer and how can he do that with out his AK-47.