GALLUP: AMERICANS WANT MENTAL HEALTH LAWS, POLICE, NOT BANNING GUNS

Despite the attempts by the Left to use the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut to forward their anti-gun agenda, Americans feel that there are other avenues they would rather explore to protect to innocent children, according to a new Gallup Poll. In order of preference, the poll shows that 53% of Americans would favor an increased police presence at schools, 50% wanted to increase government spending on mental health screening and treatment, 47% thought that gun violence on TV, in movies and in video games should be decreased, and 42% thought the sale of assault and semi-automatic guns should be banned.

Almost as many people (34%) thought that at least one school official in every school should carry a gun as those who favored banning the sale of assault and semi-automatic guns, while 27% felt that the news media should not print or read the names of the shooter. The news blackout of the shooter drew the highest percentage of those who thought it would be ineffective, at 40%, but the gun ban was a close second in the ineffectiveness rating at 36%.

"There oughta be a law!"

This is why the whole script that the Regime and the MSM is on about gun bans will massively backfire. Guns sales through the roof, NRA membership spiking this week and Rat pols like Joe Manchin backtracking fast from earlier anti gun comments are all you need to know about it.

The point of the results seems to be that we want to address the real problem not the progressives wet dream of banning guns and trampling on the constitutional rights of law abiding citizens.

The current state of mental health care in this country has an impact on everyone. If you go to the grocery store, bank or even the C store you have to see, hear or deal with a mentally unstable person on one end; all the way up to your life is directly impacted daily by someone in your family that is mentally unstable. It is a real failure of the system that now Lanza's barber, gardener and others have come out and said he was one scary kid. Holmes had roommates that went well out of their way to avoid dealing with him. I understand that in many states there is no programs to filter and sideline these people. Eliminating the mental care housing facilites was a huge mistake. Lanza's parents could easily have afforded housed care for him but didn't. Why?

The democrats using dead kids bodies for fund raising and agenda pushing is not going over well. Before the liberals threw the mental patients out on the street in
1974 this did not happen, I often had ammo in my pocket at school when I was a kid, to day they wuld pme in jail, I carried a pocket knife also. But in those days we
put nuts in the insane institution.

A simple question, it is illegal for a mental patient to own a weapon, but how do you know who the mental person is if they are not reported. And yes the parents need
Be accountable, this my little crazy johnny would not hurt a fly has got to stop.

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The current state of mental health care in this country has an impact on everyone. If you go to the grocery store, bank or even the C store you have to see, hear or deal with a mentally unstable person on one end; all the way up to your life is directly impacted daily by someone in your family that is mentally unstable. It is a real failure of the system that now Lanza's barber, gardener and others have come out and said he was one scary kid. Holmes had roommates that well out of their way to avoid dealing with him. I understand that in many states there is no programs to filter and sideline these people. Eliminating the mental care housing facilites was a huge mistake. Lanza's parents could easily have afforded housed care for him but didn't. Why?

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Lanza's parents could easily have afforded housed care for him but didn't. Why?

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You can't legally force an adult into treatment against their will at this time, even if they are exhibiting psychotic behavior. The state of Connecticut failed to pass legislation dealing with this issue after the Colorado shooting a few months ago thanks to the advocacy of the ACLU.

There is a need to allow the family or caretakers to get help for these mentally ill adults without trampling on their civil rights.

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The democrats using dead kids bodies for fund raising and agenda pushing is not going over well. Before the liberals threw the mental patients out on the street in
1974 this did not happen, I often had ammo in my pocket at school when I was a kid, to day they wuld pme in jail, I carried a pocket knife also. But in those days we
put nuts in the insane institution.

A simple question, it is illegal for a mental patient to own a weapon, but how do you know who the mental person is if they are not reported. And yes the parents need
Be accountable, this my little crazy johnny would not hurt a fly has got to stop.

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Rosy after the fact picture, trouble is we do know if one word of it is true, we do know one neighbor said he, adam, was an animal.

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Lanza's parents could easily have afforded housed care for him but didn't. Why?

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You can't legally force an adult into treatment against their will at this time, even if they are exhibiting psychotic behavior. The state of Connecticut failed to pass legislation dealing with this issue after the Colorado shooting a few months ago thanks to the advocacy of the ACLU.

There is a need to allow the family or caretakers to get help for these mentally ill adults without trampling on their civil rights.

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Yes you can, it normal takes about fifteen minutes in front of a judge. That is how long it took for my neighbor to be placed in charge of her mother.

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Lanza's parents could easily have afforded housed care for him but didn't. Why?

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You can't legally force an adult into treatment against their will at this time, even if they are exhibiting psychotic behavior. The state of Connecticut failed to pass legislation dealing with this issue after the Colorado shooting a few months ago thanks to the advocacy of the ACLU.

There is a need to allow the family or caretakers to get help for these mentally ill adults without trampling on their civil rights.

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Yes you can, it normal takes about fifteen minutes in front of a judge. That is how long it took for my neighbor to be placed in charge of her mother.

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It depends on the state and it takes a lot longer than 15 minutes. You can't just declare someone incompetent just because you say so.

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Lanza's parents could easily have afforded housed care for him but didn't. Why?

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You can't legally force an adult into treatment against their will at this time, even if they are exhibiting psychotic behavior. The state of Connecticut failed to pass legislation dealing with this issue after the Colorado shooting a few months ago thanks to the advocacy of the ACLU.

There is a need to allow the family or caretakers to get help for these mentally ill adults without trampling on their civil rights.

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Yes you can, it normal takes about fifteen minutes in front of a judge. That is how long it took for my neighbor to be placed in charge of her mother.

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Oh, yeah. You can get a restraining order. And in some instances that piece of paper is ignored and the person who is restrained by the court is not intimidated by the power of the judge and they will still go after the victim violently. It's just a piece of paper.

Yes, some places it takes an hour,

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatorship

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Lanza's parents could easily have afforded housed care for him but didn't. Why?

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You can't legally force an adult into treatment against their will at this time, even if they are exhibiting psychotic behavior. The state of Connecticut failed to pass legislation dealing with this issue after the Colorado shooting a few months ago thanks to the advocacy of the ACLU.

There is a need to allow the family or caretakers to get help for these mentally ill adults without trampling on their civil rights.

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Yes you can, it normal takes about fifteen minutes in front of a judge. That is how long it took for my neighbor to be placed in charge of her mother.

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Oh, yeah. You can get a restraining order. And in some instances that piece of paper is ignored and the person who is restrained by the court is not intimidated by the power of the judge and they will still go after the victim violently. It's just a piece of paper.

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A restraining order has nothing to do with a conservatorship, you are on the wrong legal page.