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Friday’s horrific national tragedy—the murder of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in New Town, Connecticut—has ignited a new discussion on violence in America. In kitchens and coffee shops across the country, we tearfully debate the many faces of violence in America: gun culture, media violence, lack of mental health services, overt and covert wars abroad, religion, politics and the way we raise our children. Liza Long, a writer based in Boise, says it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness.
Three days before 20 year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, then opened fire on a classroom full of Connecticut kindergartners, my 13-year old son Michael (name changed) missed his bus because he was wearing the wrong color pants.
“I can wear these pants,” he said, his tone increasingly belligerent, the black-hole pupils of his eyes swallowing the blue irises.
“They are navy blue,” I told him. “Your school’s dress code says black or khaki pants only.”
“They told me I could wear these,” he insisted. “You’re a stupid bitch. I can wear whatever pants I want to. This is America. I have rights!”
so they sent us home with a prescription for Zyprexa and a follow-up visit with a local pediatric psychiatrist.
Originally posted by thePharaoh
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call of duty and mkultra emails might also be relevant
as for scary disabled kids....BS
thanx
Originally posted by sparky31
mentally ill?yeah thats all we hear about from this shooting,how many mentally ill people in britain have went out and shot up a school in last 10 years?......enough said
Originally posted by Neopan100
Already tiring of this "mental illness" crap..it sounds like that kids needs some serious discipline! If it were my child I would calmly lay down the rules and then the consequences..and the consequences WOULD not be taking away electronics..it would be a one way ticket to military type school where his a$$ would learn some respect.
Sorry but I find a lot of 'mental illness' to be complete and utter BS! Parents seem to be lacking parental skills.
ok i,m sorry i may not have explained that enough....what i meant is everyones blaming mental illness for him doing this which i agree but if he didn,t have easy access to a gun then he couldn,t have shot up a school full of kids......no one seems to be putting it down to fact he could get access to a gun but down to cause he was mentally ill.
Originally posted by ManBehindTheMask
Originally posted by sparky31
mentally ill?yeah thats all we hear about from this shooting,how many mentally ill people in britain have went out and shot up a school in last 10 years?......enough said
Right cause its mentally stable people who go out and murder classrooms full of children........
Youre right, this guy was clearly normal.........
Originally posted by sparky31
ok i,m sorry i may not have explained that enough....what i meant is everyones blaming mental illness for him doing this which i agree but if he didn,t have easy access to a gun then he couldn,t have shot up a school full of kids......no one seems to be putting it down to fact he could get access to a gun but down to cause he was mentally ill.
Originally posted by ManBehindTheMask
Originally posted by sparky31
mentally ill?yeah thats all we hear about from this shooting,how many mentally ill people in britain have went out and shot up a school in last 10 years?......enough said
Right cause its mentally stable people who go out and murder classrooms full of children........
Youre right, this guy was clearly normal.........