It's NOT The Guns!


  
 



I am not an NRA fanatic.  I don't own a gun and doubt I ever will.    






 







But I know one thing.  Guns don't kill people!  PEOPLE kill people.

I am not an NRA fanatic. I don't own a gun and doubt I ever will.

But I know one thing. Guns don't kill people! PEOPLE kill people.

Now everyone will once again go on a rampage about Gun Control.

They don't get it. It's NOT THE GUNS!

We have no Mental Health policy in the country.

We don't like to talk about it.

We treat people with mental illnesses as if they were damaged or weak.

We don't treat them like people.

In fact we ignore people. Especially troubled people or people different from the rest of us.

WE DON'T CARE!

For years, I worked hard to get help for my son. Without money or health insurance, it was futile!

Someone once asked me, why should my tax money pay to help your kid.

My answer was "Because it's cheaper to help him NOW" than it will be to pay for his incarceration a decade or two from now.

I am a hard headed, determined woman. I would not give up until I got my son help.

I could not ignore the signs. I could not live with myself if he killed someone and I could have done something, anything to prevent it.

It wasn't easy. In fact it was the hardest thing I ever had to do.

But I can understand why so many parents just give up. THEY DO YOU KNOW!

I repeat….THERE IS NO MENTAL HEALTH POLICY IN AMERICA!

So what do we do with the Mentally Ill?

We let them wander the streets. We put them in jails. We walk past them and ignore them until they break down and harm someone!

There are people crying out for help with no place to go and no one to listen.

They go out and buy street drugs or use alcohol to self-medicate because they can't get the help or afford the expensive psycho-active drugs.

They go out and buy a gun without any trouble because they don't have any criminal background. Perhaps they plan on killing themselves.

But sometimes they chose otherwise and then it becomes a public spectacle that answers no questions nor solves the issue at hand.

When will we learn? When will we wake up and start caring about our fellow man?

We say to ourselves, it's not our problem. But it is! Everytime some mentally ill person commits a crime, it is our problem.

Because as tax payers we pay the bill for the crime, the trial and the incareration.

THIS ALL CAN BE STOPPED! The question is do we have the will to stop it?

Do we care enough to change the conversation. I repeat…..Guns don't kill people. PEOPLE KILL!

Let us not waste our time arguing about the guns. Let's stop this madness.

Let's require that any discussion of National Health issues MUST INCLUDE a dialog about Mental Health issues.

We can change this! It just takes the will! The question is do we have it? Or will we continue as we have in the past to tap dance around the issue and ignore the people crying out for help?

Or children's lives depend on US stepping up!

It’s NOT the guns!