Reply #43: They have the technology to take people down without killing them [View All]

It is unconscionable...and you sound like a Republican sound bite. "Liberal" used to have "bleeding heart" in it. It sure as fuck doesn't any more.

If the guy was a diabetic with his insulin out of control or someone with a brain tumor, it would be NO different. Our culture shuns it's mentally ill, even though the operative word is "ILL". Period. There is NO reason for the first response to be KILLING SOMEONE who probably has no control over his behavior.

If there was NO other way to take someone down and other Innocents were at risk, then so be it but we DO have the technology to take people down without killing them.

During the Cho incident I got so upset with people here I talked about it, a LOT, to my shrink. I actually went so far as to hating some of you, for a time. IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME. It could even have been YOU. Mental illness strikes everyone, every class, every day, just like most illnesses. It's a prima facia case too. The behavior PROVES the illness. Any society worth SPIT should take care of it's ill, then it might not ever come to this. As is, you don't even notice us until we die on your doorstep or shoot up a school.

FUCK THAT.

Lee