Today is a dark day. It is a day when evil walked on two
legs into a kindergarten classroom. It is a day when a madman mowed down a
classroom of kindergartners. I can’t help but think that five year olds were
clinging to their teacher, the shooter’s mother, as she died. I can’t help but
think they were crying and scared wanting their mommies. What kind of animal
does this?
But then again, while you will hear a loud drumbeat from the
White House and the anti-gun lobby, what kind of delusional person shoots a
movie full of viewers enjoying a new film or a playground of school kids? Let’s
look at this further-what kind of person drowns her six young children or cuts
the arms off her baby to make her an angel? These people share the same
problem-they are what used to be called insane. Now that has been sanitized
into an “illness” for which they cannot be held responsible. The woman who
drowned her six young kids pled not guilty by reason of insanity when in
reality it should be GUILTY by reason of insanity. Likewise the woman who
killed her baby was committed for a short time and was in the past few months
discovered to be working in a Walmart. The attitude of the medical community
and the liberals is that you make these people show up to get meds and then
send them on their way. No monitoring, no oversight, no protection for those
they come in contact with. And if they stop taking their meds, what then?
But how does it get to this point. Let me give you an
illustration. A colleague of mine has been victimized to the point of having
nightmares by a six foot four male student who throws furniture and has as
recently as last summer was in a mental health hospital. For six months she
endured verbal threats and had to intervene as this student threatened others.
One day he told her “I could hit you in the head with this hammer and you can’t
stop me.” Indeed, until violence occurs there’s nothing a general ed classroom
teacher can do. And there’s nothing we can do to protect other students either.
Luckily this student was finally removed to a unit designed for emotionally
disturbed students. He lasted two weeks in a facility designed for his needs
and was kicked out. Now he’s in another school district where I have no doubt
he’s cycling through the same delusional and menacing behavior. Everyone’s
scared of the ADA and nobody wants to make the call that this individual is
dangerous. I have little doubt that down the road, he’s another tragedy waiting
to happen.
The problem is not with guns. Richard Speck murdered several
nurses with a knife. Jim Jones murdered men, women and children with poison.
The Weather Underground murdered people with bombs. Guns have been with us a
long time. But what has not been with us is the prevailing societal drumbeat
that we must not judge those who act out in dangerous and delusional ways. The
ADA and various liberal feelgood policies have created a situation of political
correctness where seeking to commit an insane individual to a facility where
they cannot harm others is “unkind” or “meanspirited.” Indeed, many of the
recent events of mass violence reveal a known history of outrageously insane
behavior that was deliberately overlooked for the sake of avoiding being “judgmental.”
What will happen now is yet another outcry for gun control
when what needs to happen is that we must, for the sake of our nation, take
back the right to keep the criminally insane from victimizing the innocent. A
friend of mine who just left a position as an aide at a facility designed for the retarded told me that
the majority of the people there are mentally ill, not retarded. They are
allowed to act out in ridiculous and provocative ways. She left because a man
tried to gouge out her eye. Nothing was done. Nothing will ever be done as long
as the current ADA laws are in effect. We have actually turned over the sylum
to the inmates. The uptick in homelessness, the rise in domestic crime and the
increase in drug abuse are all biproducts of a society that refuses to accept
that some people are simply too sick and insane to be left on their own. I am
not talking about the depressed, or the bipolar or even the nasty-but of those
who are so obviously insane that they pose a threat to others. I shudder and
can barely hold back tears when I think of that roomful of kindergartners
murdered for the sake of sparing someone’s feelings. We must take back the
safety of our society. We have to realize that by allowing such people to act out with impunity, we are not helping them, we are allowing them to overtake us.
