Far Left Groups Defeated Connecticut Mental Health Protection Laws Just Months Before Shooting

Months before the Newtown massacre far left groups defeated a Connecticut mental health protections law.
Counter Contempt reported:

Here’s a fact you might not know – Connecticut is one of only SIX states in the U.S. that doesn’t have a type of “assisted outpatient treatment” (AOT) law (sometimes referred to as “involuntary outpatient treatment”). There’s no one standard for these types of laws, but (roughly speaking) these are laws that allow for people with mental illness to be forcibly treated BEFORE they commit a serious crime. Whereas previous legal standards held that the mentally ill cannot be institutionalized or medicated until they harm someone or themselves, or until they express an immediate intent to do so, AOT laws (again, roughly speaking) allow for preventativeinstitutionalization or forced medication (I highly recommend reading the data cited in the link I provided in this paragraph, especially regarding what is known as “first episode psychosis”).

AOT laws vary state-by-state, and often bear the name of a person murdered by an untreated mentally ill person (“Kendra’s Law” in New York, “Laura’s Law” in California, etc.).

Earlier this year, Connecticut considered passing an AOT law (and a weak one, at that), and it failed, due to protests from “civil liberties” groups.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/12/...efore-shooting/

Leave it to the damn leftists to screw it up and in the process blame everyone else but themselves. Connecticut also has some of the strictest gun laws. A lot of good that did them.

So a mentally ill person must kill someone before they will be treated in Connecticut? Sounds about right for an ultra liberal state. Thank God I live in the south where common sense prevails.

The left has always pushed this main stream crap for kids with mental problems, one of these nice kids almost killed my fist wife, he was shocking her to death when another teacher hit him in the head with a text book. That was years ago, today the teacher that hit the kid would be charged with a crime.