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Within reason people that are willing to take a interest in public protection .. And are not associated with law enforcement. Need to be willing to do what’s necessary to preserve life, I feel .It is why our forefathers in this country framed the constitution the way they did …

You've really got to love a country where underage kids are not allowed to purchase a lottery ticket without an ID, but are perfectly able to purchase a gun.

I will now go back to the beginning of this thread and say something I have been putting off saying directly.

Even with what I just said, the availability of guns is an issue;

‘This is not a video game.’ Alabama police chief responds to graduation party shooting
By Madeleine List
May 27, 2022 5:52 PM
https://www.sunherald.com/news/nation-w ... 73835.html

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An Alabama police chief responded to a shooting at a graduation party that injured six people by imploring youth not to pick up guns.

“The impulse to use firearms by the young people in our society is a tragedy and a shame,” Anniston police Chief Nick Bowles said in a news release on Facebook in response to the May 27 shooting.
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Six people were struck by bullets, and at least one person was injured fleeing the scene, the news release says. None of the injuries were considered life-threatening.

Multiple vehicles were hit by stray bullets, and dozens of shell casings and several firearms were recovered from the scene. The investigation is still ongoing, according to police.

“Lives are fragile and precious,” Bowles said in the statement. “This is not a video game or movie. You don’t get to respawn. The other person doesn’t get another chance to play again.”
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And the "Read Next" selection below story text might be illustrating a point or two,
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Back to the matters of bullying and psychology,

USA TODAY
Uvalde gunman, isolated and bullied, was teased about being 'school shooter.' Then he bought guns.
Chris Kenning, Rafael Carranza and Will Carless, USA TODAY
Sun, May 29, 2022, 11:20 AM·10 min read
https://news.yahoo.com/uvalde-gunman-is ... 05138.html

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It’s not known whether Ramos or his family ever sought mental health support, but Uvalde Justice of the Peace Eulalio Diaz, who helped identify some of the bodies of the children after the shooting, lamented the lack of mental health resources in the city.

"This child was probably suffering from something that was never diagnosed," he said. "The way you get diagnosed here is you end up in jail. This kid never made it to jail."
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That brings to mind,


Incarceration nation

The United States leads the world in incarceration. A new report explores why — and offers recommendations for fixing the system.
October 2014, Vol 45, No. 9
Print version: page 56
13 min read
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/10/incarceration

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Who's in prison?

The committee found that the deinstitutionalization movement of the 1960s — which shut down large treatment facilities for the mentally ill — coupled with the lack of community resources to treat them, resulted in some people going to prisons and jails instead. One study found this trend accounts for about 7 percent of prison population growth from 1980 to 2000 — representing 40,000 to 72,000 people in prisons who would likely have been in mental hospitals in the past.

Mental illness among today's inmates is also pervasive, with 64 percent of jail inmates, 54 percent of state prisoners and 45 percent of federal prisoners reporting mental health concerns, the report found. Substance abuse is also rampant and often co-occurring.

"Part of what's really swelled our jail and prison population, especially our jail population, is our inability to deal with the mental health crisis that we're facing in this country," says Tangney. "We have an enormous number of people who are suffering from very treatable illnesses who are not getting treatment and who end up getting caught in the criminal justice system as opposed to the mental health system."

The rise in incarceration rates has also disproportionately affected minority populations, the report found. In 2011, for example, about 40 percent of those behind bars were black, although African Americans and others of African descent make up only 13.2 percent of the U.S. population, one study found. Hispanics also were over-represented in prison, at 20 percent of the prison population compared with 17.1 percent of the U.S. population.
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So, during the time from the 2014 article to the 2022 article, what was improved in our society was ...

this country is fkkked beyond repair. to fix things now you'd have to replace a majority of the population.

But even with all written above this is still a Mental health issue . And I think the State is starting to recognize it .
But do not want responsibility for not addressing it properly , or disabling the previous processes that used to address it . The country has allowed the “media” freedom of speech rights as a corporate entity . When NO such rights should exist for non human entities . There was heavy censorship of broadcasting extreme violence of all sorts
And it was frowned upon by the public , when media behavior was not civic minded . There should be no rights for corporations that demonstrating bad behavior as part of their ability to attract portions of the populace .
Surely it is human nature that , often individuals , want as part of expressing themselves , to portray a bad boy image or behavior possibly , Being “rebellious “ did not used to be generally accepted and children were raised to try to be
Nice appearing members of society . Grow up , as a responsible adult . But now the media wants to cater to the base
Urges of human nature and reward in various ways for that behavior in video games or gangs .
The original idea of freedom speech,was speech that was meant to improve things critiques of poor government . Not incessant outward displays of violence . All the way down to the level of children in school . Violence breeds Violence.
People used to let off frustration in competitive sports or hobbies . But this is all my own observations of degradations of Government . That seems to be occurring .