This is an issue that really needs to be discussed. While people are yelling and screaming about guns, the underlying issue is not being addressed: the state of mental health in this country. THAT'S what the problem is, not guns restrictions or the lack thereof.Â
@nikkiole: Ditto, as I sit hear reading more about a Mom who confessed to drowning two of her three young children yesterday morning about 5 miles from where I used to live in PA. We're the same age, both have 3 sons, the one passed at the hospital I worked at.... It hits so close to home. Â And yet, there were signs of instability before - she "accidentally" backed into , and ran over, two of her kids in 2009. Left another in a car, in the summer, while she went shopping at the Mall. There's signs that her husband and parents were concerned for her health. I'm not sure why mental health wasn't pursued further, but it wasn't. And now one little sweet boy is gone and another is fighting for his life.
There is a stigma with mental health, to begin with. I just don't know what the answer is to fixing our health care system - it needs a major overall, though. 4951