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<blockquote data-quote="MWBATL" data-source="post: 401931" data-attributes="member: 944"><p>I think the biggest issue is what do we do with people who seem clearly disturbed and are risks to themselves or to society. I lived in Florida when I had a very emotional 17 year old male son who was doing some very disturbing things. We were worried both that he might harm himself and that he might harm others. We knew, or thought, it was a phase of his life (it turned out to be true) but we went to local authorities and found out that virtually nothing could be done until AFTER a law had been broken. The absolute max that could be done was to retain such a person for 72 hours in a mental health facility for evaluation if you had hard evidence they were a threat to themselves. Such facilities would only then retain those who were the truest of loonies, not a disturbed teenager who could game the system.</p><p></p><p>My suspicion is that we need to pay MUCH More attention to these complex issues (and they are complex and not easily solved for the constitutional principles involved) rather than the rather simplistic solution of gun control. </p><p></p><p>Remember that in Norway, one crazed gunman killed almost 70 people in a single day with his rifle. These things may not happen often, but they do happen. And the result there was not more gun control, it was to sack their Minister of Police for not preventing the attack when there were some limited warning signs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MWBATL, post: 401931, member: 944"] I think the biggest issue is what do we do with people who seem clearly disturbed and are risks to themselves or to society. I lived in Florida when I had a very emotional 17 year old male son who was doing some very disturbing things. We were worried both that he might harm himself and that he might harm others. We knew, or thought, it was a phase of his life (it turned out to be true) but we went to local authorities and found out that virtually nothing could be done until AFTER a law had been broken. The absolute max that could be done was to retain such a person for 72 hours in a mental health facility for evaluation if you had hard evidence they were a threat to themselves. Such facilities would only then retain those who were the truest of loonies, not a disturbed teenager who could game the system. My suspicion is that we need to pay MUCH More attention to these complex issues (and they are complex and not easily solved for the constitutional principles involved) rather than the rather simplistic solution of gun control. Remember that in Norway, one crazed gunman killed almost 70 people in a single day with his rifle. These things may not happen often, but they do happen. And the result there was not more gun control, it was to sack their Minister of Police for not preventing the attack when there were some limited warning signs. [/QUOTE]
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