Who will quarrel with a proposed law to spend $1.4 billion over ten years to “strengthen the nation’s mental health services and perhaps stave off violent acts by the mentally ill?”
Such
services could certainly help desperate families with nowhere to turn for help,
but will they be more than a band-aid to cover the Second Amendment insanity
afflicting the whole society?
Only
if mental health professionals set up shop in Washington to treat lawmakers with
anxiety disorders over opposing the National Rifle Association’s paranoia
in keeping them from limiting automatic weapons and bullet clips that end
scores of lives in seconds.
Would
any clinic have disarmed the man who pleaded guilty yesterday to shooting up a Family
Research Council Office with a pistol, two magazines and 50 rounds of
ammunition to "kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-Fil-A
sandwiches in victims' faces?"
After
World War II, when mental illness was still a subject not openly discussed in
polite society, it took decades to raise public awareness of the need to
support medical help for treatment, however uncertain the results might be.
How
long will it take to change attitudes toward the gun madness of a whole society?
Dr. Joe Biden and his colleagues have a long way to go.
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