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Originally Posted by azasadny
Good points made. We have more than 300M people in the US , so we'll have more violent crime. Norway had a similar horrific shooting last year and 77 were killed and Norway has about 4m people. We do not have a "mental health system" in the US, so mentally ill/emotionally disturbed people do not receive effective treatment and a certain percentage of these people may commit violent crimes. My wife is also a teacher and she sees this daily and my father and brother are both retired LEO's and they have both seen it. The root cause is untreated mental illness.... We must treat these people or this will continue... There should be no shame in admitting that you or someone you love is mentally or emotionally ill, it's an illness, no different from a physical ailment and may in fact have a physical cause.
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Or, perhaps the result of incorrect treatment and case management.