So in the latest shooting at UCC has again sparked the National debate on gun control and Mental Illness.
Wonderful Donald Trump has found it necessary to not blame gun control but to blame Mental Illness alone!
See below:
In the wake of America's most recent mass shooting, Republican front-runner Donald Trump said, "It's not a gun problem, it's a mental illness problem."
In a one-on-one interview with Chuck Todd for "Meet the Press," Trump said he watched and understands President Obama's statement urging action to curb mass violence in the wake of the Oregon shooting. But he added, "Guns, no guns, doesn't matter. You have people that are mentally ill and they're going to come through the cracks and they're going to do things that people will not even believe are possible." Trump has previously iterated the message that mass shootings and gun violence are more the product of broken mental health systems than proof of the need for tighter gun control laws.
When asked why it seems these acts of mass violence are more prevalent in the United States than other countries, Trump responded, "I think what we have is we have copy cats. I think that they watch it and they see it here more than other places."
More from Chuck Todd's interview with Donald Trump will air Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
I am all for the right to bare arms in our Country, to defend. Gun control works in this Country for the most part. Many have been stopped by the powers of gun control but now the issues are when they are stopped and declined the permit and the Government see's some reason in that person why are there no further questions asked? This person declined and for some reason is seeking a fire arm, and no one follows up?
Another issue with gun control is you can not control what is already out there in the public. Families have guns in there homes and accessibility is there and this has been proven over and over again in shootings across the Country.
Other Countries have bombings we have shootings by our own Countrymen. We are now so use to it, we see it in the news in a daily flash, say a pray and then spread only news about the person who did the shooting. We follow their lengthy news trial, even years down the road its still shown.
Everyday there are countless people lost in the rough streets in this Country. We are killing each other over drugs, money, clothes, cars, jewelry. Children are getting killed daily in the crossfires! Where is the daily up roar for these people lost? Do we not care?
There are children in the streets killed just going to school each day, gangs taking over stealing the youth from our Country.
IS this Mental Health related only? Is every person in a gang mentally Ill? To broadly give a statement that was done by Donald Trump is just childish and I beg him to contact me, let me speak in public on how I feel about Guns, Mental Health and lets see if he can keep up with me, a general person in the World living with a Mental health diagnosis, who has owned guns, who has guns in her home and has never taken to killing my fellow Country men or woman.
I do agree this Country has shut a blinds eye to the Mental Health issues, closed many doors and facilities to the Mentally Disabled who can not afford health care, even with the "GREAT" Obama Care" There is a need to fix our Health care system across the board. Let us not forget how many people in our Country with a Mental Illness are our Military and Ex-Military members. PTSD is a huge issue for many. Perfect Example was Chris Kyle's life lost to a person who clearly was having a Mental Health issue.
The system clearly failed and Chris Kyle, an American Hero. We is the cry for change in our Mental health system over his life lost.
Each day in America and other Countries in fact we loose lives of many to Suicide as well. Again, even the ones who do this horrific act are killing themselves immediately afterwards. The time is now to act in a positive way. NOT to just blanket blame as so conveniently Mr. Trump has done in his recent statements.
As a person who speaks and writes about Mental Health Awareness I am appalled by all the negative comments each time there is a shooting in this Country. Do I agree the person who did the shooting is clearly not all in their right mind? Of course, you would have to be blind to not believe that person had or has issues. Though with that said, we have to stop the generalization of all in the Mental Health community. It does nothing but tear down what so many have tried to build, such as myself.
I say to the Media as well, STOP glorifying the shooters. Even today in my City of Las Vegas, Nevada there was a Mother and her young son who were killed by a neighbor. He came into her home and killed her and took her son to his home, killing the boy and himself! Have you heard any out pour of news for this family?
Media wants to report the large shootings it is more news worthy as they like to put it, shame I say every life lost is news worthy!
The only way this will change is by us all standing together and make demands on changes on how we are handed our news.
We will only see things get worse I am afraid in our Country as the years go by us. We now have our children locked in the house, games, movies, texting, shopping, home schooling. The youth of the future will have no coping skills to deal with the harsh realty of the public when they do encounter others. We of the past ages were raised with the neighbor kids, outside, walking to school, playing on playgrounds. YES there was bullying and fights but we dealt with it right then and there for the most part. IT is not a new thing this bullying but what is new is the way children are handling or not handling it and even taking their own lives or the lives of others.
Is there an easy solution? NO and anything hard will not have things come easily. We are fools to think this will just go away because a Front runner wants to blanket accuse one specific group.
We as a community, a Mental Health Community need to stand together now before we loose the ability to have our rights because we are lumped into a broad blanket of accusations. We are not all murderers and I do not wish to be called one, to be worried by people I do not even know that I may kill them one day.
How do you think this will end for anyone who just is living their life and living the best they can with a Mental disability.
I say there are bad people in society with or without a Mental Health diagnosis. That should be our focus, to stop the murders of our own people. Can it be done? I honestly do not see it being rectified any time soon. We have been killing each other for centuries its just we are seeing different reasons or the lack of reasons now in the killings.
Let us talk about this, let us come to an understanding and stop the blanket accusations! I plead with you Mr Trump... and again I will be more then happy to debate these facts with any of you!
Sincerely,
Belinda Sue Kramer::: I am a mentally disabled person living in America!
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