Consider removing mentally deranged individuals from society

Steve Chapman: Gun control still won't work
It has been a dismal decade for Gun Control advocates. They lost the federal so-called assault weapons ban when it expired in 2004. The Supreme Court made history by proclaiming an individual right to own Firearms for self-defense. A Democratic president came into office vowing not to take away anyone's guns. So it's no surprise that anti-gun forces would take the Mass Shooting in Tucson as a rare opportunity to reverse their fortunes. It's also no surprise that their proposals are models of f...

How the mental health system failed Jared Loughner, despite Arizonas lenient commitment standard (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller MSNBC's Chris Matthews is the left's version of a 'birther,' says Pat Buchanan Congressman's wife sentenced to jail for Tax Fraud Giffords making miraculous recovery, can move arms and legs Military commission prepares to recommend that women be allowed in combat roles TheDC on TV: Jamie Weinstein discusses Health Care on the RT's 'Big Picture with Thom Hartmann' As Americans grapple with the implications of Saturday’s shooting in Tucson, which ki...

Will the Tucson Shooting Alter the Gun Control Debate?
Photo: Getty Images As the Green family buried their 9-year-old daughter Christina-Taylor today, one group has remained surprisingly silent: The National Rifle Association. Out of respect for Saturday's Shooting Victims, the NRA has said it will stay mum until all of the Victim's funerals have passed, noting that “at this time, anything other than prayers for the victims and their families would be inappropriate.” But Gun Control advocates have openly expressed their hopes that thi...

Lawmakers And The Crazy Laws They Want To Pass In The Wake Of Tucson Tragedy
When House Majority Leader John Boehner suspended legislative activity in the House of Representatives following the mass Murder in Tucson, Ariz., it was a laudable and thoughtful move. He had previously offered that, "An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve," and by calling for a legislative pause, he reinforced a moment that called for comity. Potentially tendentious legislative debates could wait a week, as legislators took some time to soothe their frayed psyches and show...

Officials: New gun-control laws unlikely
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- New gun-control laws are unlikely to come out of Capitol Hill following the deadly Tucson shooting rampage, Republican and Democratic lawmakers say. "We're not looking at banning all weapons," U.S. Rep. Gary L. Ackerman, D-N.Y., tells the Los Angeles Times. Ackerman wants to close a Loophole that allows some private dealers to sell guns without conducting Background Checks. "We're looking to make sure that innocent people from all over will be safe in their own homes...

Guns For Killing Cops and Soldiers?
5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its Sovereignty. 6. We will NOT obey any order to Blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant Concentration Camps. 7. We will NOT obey any order to force American Citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext. 8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign Troops on U.S. soil against the American People to "keep the peace" or to "maintain control." 9. We will NOT obey ...

Root THE REAL LESSONS OF THE GABRIELLE GIFFORDS TRAGEDY:
THE REAL LESSONS OF THE Gabrielle Giffords TRAGEDY:  WE NEED MORE GUNS IN THE HANDS OF LAW ABIDING CITIZENS! “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”  -Thomas Jefferson The key...

Arizonas Mental Health Budget Crunch
National Review has a fine editorial on the Tucson massacre and Mental Health: The tragic irony is that Arizona boasts some of the strongest [involuntary commitment] laws in America. Had Jared Lee Loughner been referred to mental-health professionals, there is a chance that his bloody rampage could have been prevented. Think of all the people and institutions — his parents, his neighbors, his fellow Pima Community College (PCC) Students, PCC administrators, the Campus Police, the Pima County...

Silence greets calls for changes in gun laws (AP)
WASHINGTON – Most lawmakers are greeting calls for tougher gun restrictions after the Arizona shootings with silence, reflecting the tilt in recent years toward expanding access to Firearms rather than curtailing it. The White House, too, is sidestepping questions on an issue that is among the Most Toxic in U.S. politics. So far, proposed Legislation has focused on prohibiting magazine clips that allow a shooter to fire off numerous rounds of ammunition without reloading. The shooter in ...

Republican prepares bill to let lawmakers carry guns on House floor
Stumble This! In response to Gun Control bills put forth by members of both parties in the aftermath of the Arizona shootings, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) is planning to introduce Legislation that permits lawmakers to carry Firearms on the floor of the House and in Washington, DC. "There is a rash of Legislation further infringing on Second Amendment rights that has been unwisely proffered in the wake of events in Tucson," Gohmert told The Hill. "If members of Congress wishes to carry a weapon in...

Gun Control Doesn't Work
So says the Chicago Tribune editorial Board Member, Steve Chapman. via Fat White Man. The first idea came from Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., who wants to ban all ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds — which was the rule under the assault weapons law. Her rationale is that the rampage ended when the shooter exhausted a clip that held at least 30 rounds and tried to reload, at which point he was subdued. With a 10-round clip, he co...

Investigators look over bag suspect may have carried
TUCSON — Authorities are examining a black bag containing 9mm ammunition they believe was discarded by the suspect in the Assassination attempt on a congresswoman. Pima County Sheriff's deputies, working with the FBI to gather evidence from the shooting Saturday, said they believe a black diaper bag found Thursday morning by someone walking a dog was used by Jared Loughner, 22, who faces federal Murder and assault charges. The bag was found near the Loughners' suburban home, Sheriff's Deput...

Tucson Tragedy: The Case for Doing Nothing
From The Economist blog ‘Democracy in America’: Still, freakish death is profoundly unnerving and facing its immunity to reason tends to aggravate rather than soothe our cellular fear of disorder and death. Far from leading us to Resignation, the inscrutability of a sui generis disaster sets our minds in mad motion. We desperately and pathetically grope for some blameworthy failure of foresight, some forward-looking lesson, some food for prudence. It doesn’t matter if ther...

How We Enable Crimes of Insanity
The deranged expression on the face of Jared Lee Loughner in the Mug Shot released by the police—taken within hours after he allegedly killed six innocent people and wounded 14 more, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords—suggests that we may never fully understand whatever illness afflicts him. The law requires us to assess his mental state and motivations, but we might do better to analyze our own craziness. That doesn’t mean trying to determine whether events like the Tucson mas...

What sort of lobby is the NRA?
In the wake of a horriffic slaughter, we're not hearing too many calls for Gun Control. The media chalk this up to a "powerful gun lobby." But if you look at the nature of the gun lobby it looks less like a K Street powerhouse and more like Obama-circa- 1985 community organizing shop. LOBBYING EXPENDITURES: Over the past two years, the NRA has spent about $4 million on lobbying. That may sound like a lot, but it's relatively small. For instance, the American Association of Airport Executives has...

The Tucson, Arizona Shooting 2011: The Interaction of Mental Health Problems and the Language of the Gun
David Brooks and some of the letter writers capture the reaction to this tragic incident well with their sentiment that “the political opportunism occasioned by this tragedy has ranged from the completely irrelevant to the shamelessly irresponsible.” Looking ahead and more calmly, it will be important to think about several dimensions of the tragedy, including first the provision of Mental Health care post-deinstitutionalization, second the Regulation of dangerous weapons, third the ...

Former Judge to AZ Sheriff: Shut Up Before You Do Any More Damage to the Prosecutions Case
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 By Nicholas Ballasy Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) (CNSNews.com) - Rep. Louis Gohmert (R.-Texas), a former prosecutor and judge and a current member of the House Judiciary Committee, is offering some advice to Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who has gained national attention since Saturday for his suggestions that radio and television Talk Shows were somehow responsible for the shooting attack in Tucson that took the lives of 6 people and wounded 14 ot

Patt Cottingham: Goodbye/Hello 20: Second Thoughts About the Second Amendment
In the wake of last week's shooting in Tucson, Arizona, it is time to revisit the intent of the Second Amendment. The photo above is from outside the United Nations. The image is a strong symbol and reminder to the idea of non-violence. Yet we seem to be, if anything, a country that has become far too violent. Based on production data from firearm manufacturers, there are roughly 300 million Firearms owned by civilians in the United States as of 2010. Of these, about 100 million are Handguns....

Mental health services severely cut in Pima County, AZ in 2010
It's not just patients on the organ transplant list in Arizona that have suffered under Jan Brewer's administration. Mental Health services in the state were drastically cut in 2010. WASHINGTON -- In the past year, Pima County, Ariz., where Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others were shot Saturday, has seen more than 45 percent of its mental health services recipients forced off the public rolls, a service advocate told The Huffington Post. The deep cuts in treatment were protested st...

Did Pima County Sheriff Dupnik ignore Jared Loughner's warning signs before Gabrielle Giffords shooting?
Almost immediately after the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and several others by Jared Lee Loughner, Pima County, Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik began politicizing the tragedy [1]. Part of that politicization was justified, part was not. Specifically, considering the role that an overly hostile political environment might have played in the tragedy and urging calm is acceptable, but naming specific persons (Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh) as possible contributing factors is not. In any case, ...

Democrat Sheriff Dupnik Guilty of Dereliction of Duty
Back on Monday I posted that Pima County Sheriff Dupnik was blaming the right for the slaughter at Safeway but details had emerged of multiple contacts between Jared Loughner and Dupnik's office over multiple death threats. Duplicious and deceiving, he libeled decent and fine Americans in order to deflect his guilt. Perhaps he believes eveyone will call for cessation of blame and his gross negligence will be overlooked. How disingenuous and dangerous for President Obama to have called Dupn...

Tom Brokaw On Guns In Arizona: I Would Be Nervous Going Into A Bar
Tom Brokaw appeared on MSNBC ’s Morning Joe to discuss the prevalence of guns in America and the increase in gun sales since the Arizona shooting. Conservative commentator Peggy Noonan explained the sales being a result of law-abiding citizens eager to purchase guns in order to protect themselves from any future Jared Loughners, while Brokaw theorized that people are just eager to stockpile guns in their “underground bunkers” in case new regulations are created to restrict them...

The Other (Endless) Massacre
Posted by Ralph Peters on Jan 14th, 2011 and filed under Daily Mailer, FrontPage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. Visit FamilySecurityMatters.org. Since Saturday, our media have reveled in the aftermath of the avoidable slaughter in Tucson, where a young madman-ignored by “tolerant” social, educational and law-enforcement systems—gunned down, among others, a fe...

Where will Obama go from Tucson?
President Obama is receiving uniform praise for his memorial remarks in Tucson, Ariz. Even Conservatives are saying he hit the right notes, substantively and tonally. I agree, with a few qualifiers and gentle cautions. Obama was eloquent in his tribute to the Victims and appropriately acknowledged that "none of us can know exactly what triggered this vicious attack ... or what thoughts lurked in the inner recesses of a violent man's mind." More importantly, he said: "But what we cannot do is...

The shooting of Gabrielle Giffords leaves members of Congress at a loss in more ways than one.
Barney Frank had left the floor of the House for a moment. Dozens of his fellow members were in the chamber saluting the work of their colleague Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the lives of six people who were killed when a gunman opened fire at one of her public meetings. I stopped Frank to ask him what he thought of the bill, soon to be introduced by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., to ban the high-capacity magazines that the alleged shooter had used. "The Republicans are in power and have generally...