Another school shooting.

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<p>The young shooter is from a well known and very affluent family in Roswell. He has access to all sorts of healthcare, including, I assume, mental health care. His family had him airlifted by private air ambulance to a private adolescent psychiatric hospital in Albuquerque almost immediately after his arrest. The shooter is being held there on the family’s dime.</p>

<p>The family had hired the state’s most politically connected top criminal defense attorney almost before the kid had arrived at the police station.</p>

<p>I cannot begin to express how much “special treatment” this case is receiving.</p>

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<p>And then there are those that just don’t want treatment and wouldn’t want it no matter how easy it was to get. That happens, too. I have seen more than my fair share of it!</p>

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<p>Wow! I definitely did not know those details…</p>

<p>I don’t hate people with money. I strongly dislike those who use it to buy into a system to get off scotch free.</p>

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<p>True, Ema. Very true. My ex is suffering right now but refuses to get treatment and his “friends” are enabling his delusions. (He’s diagnosed bipolar… I think he’s schizophrenic)</p>

<p>I wonder how much of that is because of our cultural revulsion to mental illness. </p>

<p>WOWM, Ugh! Just ugh!
I hope this kid gets what he needs but I swear if I hear “affluenza” or any variant, I might explode.</p>

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<p>I have worked in crisis intervention and suicide prevention for years. I have been on the front lines of mental health care in a county of 500,000 outside of a major metro city for much of my career.</p>

<p>I honestly believe we have the best chance of stopping school shootings by stopping guns from entering the building. This is not a feel good measure. The feel good measure is believing we can identify and control the actions of a person that wants to bring a gun into school.</p>

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<p>How on earth are metal detectors going to stop guns from getting in? </p>

<p>I read your link. I’d trust something more if the author wasn’t selling something. </p>

<p>I’d be open to any peer-reviewed literature… really :)</p>

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<p>Seems to me that link does more to point out all the reasons why using metal detectors would be difficult to use. I posted it to be fair.</p>

<p>Did you really read that link?</p>

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<p>One of our clients was a schizophrenic who was well known to the hospitals, mental health care providers and police. She had been in and out of treatment for much of her young adult life. Everyone knew that she would eventually hurt others. Everyone. </p>

<p>Even though everyone knew this she was still able to get a gun and walk into a mall and start killing people.</p>

<p>There are laws protecting the rights of people with mental health problems. These laws are there so society cannot easily lock up people with mental health issues unless they are an immediate threat to themselves or others. </p>

<p>I believe it is much more prudent and realistic to make our schools safer from people with guns. So we buy a bunch of metal detectors and one less fighter jet. We install bullet proof glass, automatic locking doors…whatever we can do to help make it more difficult for Johnny to waltz into his middle school and shoot people.</p>

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