Hi Miriam
Miriam I agree and don't agree with you about gun and shuding:
Mostly when heppen something like that some shuding or massacre like that
any where in the world,
in maybe 90 prosent if is not Muslim they are say he or she have mental
problem or mental ill problem.
I wander when media or any government say terrorist act in case if is not
Muslim?.
-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam Vieni
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2015 10:26 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] my own thoughts on mental illness and guns
From my professional and personal experience, I would like to point out that
if a member of your family is an adult and is clearly mentally ill, even if
there are an array of available treatment services, it may be difficult or
impossible to help that individual go for treatment. All of this emphasis on
improving mental health services doesn't solve the problem. There's no legal
or practical way of forcing an adult to accept or utilize psychiatric
treatment. That is a tragedy with which many families live. It is probably
the reason for the reports about all of those killers whom people described,
in retrospect, as troubled, loners, obviously mentetally ill, etc. People
may have known that there was something terribly wrong, but they were
powerless to do anything. The only thing that can be done is to make guns as
unavailable as possible.
Miriam