The recent horrific events of Newtown have legislators looking to take away guns from law abiding citizens to "prevent another Newtown".
I respectfully remind all Americans that gun control only keeps guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens and that the truth is that criminal in the past, present and future will always find a way to gain access to firearms!!!
Gun control is not the answer nor is it the ISSUE!! The real issue most people fail to even come to their senses to recognize nor address so what is the issue/problem?
The ISSUE is providing people who need access to mental health professionals the proper medical attention they desperately need! The need to overcome the stigma of mental illness and mental defect!
The truest tragedy of what happened in Newtown is that the mother of the shooter failed to provide her son the medical attention he so desperately needed and deserved. The tragedy is that she chose to deny the problem and that had her son been treated or perhaps even committed to psychiatric facility this horrific situation would never have occurred.
This overwhelming fact of the matter as it is related to this horrific tragedy being wrongfully blamed on gun ownership and not focused as again I reiterate on the stigma of mental disease or mental defect and providing access to proper treatment to those who are in need of treatment!!!!!!
In this country we constantly praise our physicians for treating our diseases and ailments and openly discuss our medical problems with our loved ones, family, and friends. We often recommend doctors to one another openly but all this changes when it is related to mental illness..! We as a society need to stop burying our heads in the sand and when we see our loved ones need help rise above social perceptions, and stigmas and get our loved ones the help the need and deserve.
We need to lobby our legislators to ensure that medical insurance covers mental illness and that long term care is covered!
Again I wish
to remind everyone that the tragedy of Newtown could have been prevented had the
gunman's mother sought the mental help her son so desperately needed. No amount
of gun law legislation can ever protect our children, teachers or society for that matter
if people who are of danger to themselves and the public are not provided the
proper medical attention they so desperately need especially when their care
givers, family and friends are in denial that their loved ones need help! This is the true
tragedy!
Again I remind you all ...THE ISSUE IS NOT GUN CONTROL BUT TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS... WE AS AN EDUCATED SOCIETY NEED TO UNDERSTNAD THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL AND FOCUS ON GETTING THOSE WHO NEED MENTAL TREATMENT THE ATTENTION THEY NEED BEFORE THEY HURT THEMSELVES OR WORSE CAUSE ANOTHER NEWTOWN!
UNTIL WE UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM AND ADDRESS THE ISSUE MORONS, AND LEGISLATORS WILL ALWAYS POINT SOCIETY IN THE WRONG DIRECTION AND CALL FOR STRICTER GUN CONTROL!
I ASKED YOU ALL PLEASE...GET YOUR FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES THE HELP THEY NEED BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.
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