A Message on Sandy Hook and Mental Health Awareness
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The term "mental illness" is sometimes interchangeably used with the
word "evil", because certain types of not-normal mental processing is
evil and diagnosed as a form of "insanity".
Particularly, there are definitions for each variety of "abnormal
psychology" and a standard reference book (DSM-IV) which collects the
definitions for standardized use across society.
The worst of the worst of the criminally "insane" is the "sociopath",
so-called, or also called "psychopath", like the villains in "Silence of
the Lambs" movies. The modern terminology is "ANTI-SOCIAL PERSONALITY
DISORDER".
It is possible for one person to have more than one problem at the same
time, and sometimes that could cause misunderstanding one diagnosis for
another.
In the case of Adam Lanza, he had two distinct other conditions: (1) a
form of Autism, not known to induce violence, and (2) a peculiar
insensitivity to feeling or pain, which may be part of sociopathy, or
not, as sociopaths lack emotional empathy feelings for others being
harmed by themselves.
More than the necessary three minimum symptoms of sociopathy can be
found in Adam Lanza's final week. Whatever else was going on, sociopathy
was part of it, probably the dominating central part of it.
Learning a bit about "sociopathy" is useful in any understanding of what
happened and how to avoid similar from happening next time.
Wordy. If Hart had 250 word limit of the rest of us he would be more direct.
The Constitution puts the RIGHT TO LIFE first ahead of all rights and the one most necessary to have any other rights. One death penalty is placed in the Constitution and it is applied to those committing treason taking up arms against the govt. No reading of any other part of the constitution can be understood as arming the people to commit treason. Conspiritists whom believe in taking up arms against the govt are the actual enemy the constitution was designed to protect us from, and it is evidence of mental instability too severe to even be allowed to possess arms.
Our theory of govt was formed by THOMAS PAINE'S COMMON SENSE in 1775. There were 3 million Americans and 3 million copies reproduced of the pamphlet. Literally every American was on the same page. Govt is needed to protect life from enemies foreign and in our midst.
Govt has a duty to disarm the dangerous. That is it's first and foremost duty. Taking away the guns from bad and crazy people is what we created govt to do. The only way we could even have a civil society is if we pooled resources together into a force we could protect ourselves with against those who would kill us. Forefathers disarmed people on the same day that they wrote the Constitution, how can we be persuaded that we can't do that today?