There is a follow up to the story in the news whereby a young man shot several people -- in two groups hours apart -- then "committed suicide," according to police
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Are you saying that he was beyond the reach of current therapy and medical techniques?
I never suggested anything of the kind.
But according to the killer himself, he had been undergoing therapy/counseling, and found it not to be useful. For example:I've already been working with counselors. It's so funny how many people want to help you and love you and counsel you and `work with you through your pain' when there's money involved." But I do reject that merely making health care available to the person would have solved the problem. Many of the serial killers like this have a history of mental health treatments.
And the big mental health civil rights movements in this country have (1967 in California, 1975 nationwide) largely curtailed the involuntary admission of a person into confinement for mental health troubles, except for rare cases.
I am a bit concerned about the overreaction to this -- for example, that everyone who writes "I'm gonna kill someone" on a blog (as this fellow did, between shootings) will be reported for investigation by the authorities. There are already questions here as to why the second shooting wasn't stopped.
I never suggested anything of the kind.
But according to the killer himself, he had been undergoing therapy/counseling, and found it not to be useful. For example:I've already been working with counselors. It's so funny how many people want to help you and love you and counsel you and `work with you through your pain' when there's money involved."
But I do reject that merely making health care available to the person would have solved the problem. Many of the serial killers like this have a history of mental health treatments.
And the big mental health civil rights movements in this country have (1967 in California, 1975 nationwide) largely curtailed the involuntary admission of a person into confinement for mental health troubles, except for rare cases.
I am a bit concerned about the overreaction to this -- for example, that everyone who writes "I'm gonna kill someone" on a blog (as this fellow did, between shootings) will be reported for investigation by the authorities. There are already questions here as to why the second shooting wasn't stopped.
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