The Evil In Our World
Is it possible to prepare for evil? Can one prepare to understand a deranged mind? Are we ever secure and protected from horror?
The answer to these purely rhetorical questions is no! The inconceivable horror of Newtown found all of us totally unprepared. But should we have been so surprised that once again a person with mental problems has taken lives—an enormous amount of innocent lives. No, we should have expected that there was a possibility for that to happen.
We have seen tragedies like this before, although not as enormous and visited upon young, delightful and vulnerable lives. I do not have to mention the names of the other horrors; they are burned into our minds.
Once again, the moment after the terrible thing happened we hear the call to gun-control, as if gun-control has ever solved a thing. People kill just as efficiently with bats, knifes, bombs and other means of distraction. Islamic psychopaths love bombs.
But have you ever wondered why none of the busy politicians have called for the curtailments of mental patient’s rights when they quit taking their medications. Psychiatrists tell us that they cannot force a violent patient to take medications until they are appraised and adjudicated by a judge.
This process takes months. The patient has to be released although he may constitute a danger to others. He has his rights and the rights of the public to be safe are forfeited. I have talked to mothers who frantically sought to have a child committed to a mental facility because the child or young adult was a danger to others or himself. It is almost impossible to arrange for quick confinement. Nothing happens until the person commits an assault of some kind.
If a person is judged to need confinement we often do not have the facilities to hold him or her and they are placed among the general population.
Adam Lanz had been known to be different from the time he was five, a classmate of the shooter said on twitter. Teachers knew that he could not feel pain and showed no emotion. His mother dealt with an increasingly unstable young adult and was afraid of him. There was no help or confinement for him because he had not yet hurt anyone.
I myself have experienced the unimaginable trauma of needing confinement for a son who was a danger to himself, and the frustration of being unable to get treatment for him. Those of our mental patients lucky enough to get evaluated in a psych-unit are soon given psycho-active drugs and then released.
Once released, they self-medicate by substituting the prescribed drugs with street drugs. You can imagine the influence cocaine, meth and heroin have on a mind already in disarray.This is the real problem. I believe that as long as the rights of mentally ill persons supersede the rights of the public at large we will live with terror.
