In Searching for Solution, We Must Consider the Mentally Unstable

Bless the person with mental instabilities, as we as a nation discuss them in light of the Connecticut mass murders. A stigma is upon them. Is it fair? What does a massacre all the way across the country in Connecticut have to do with me? they would ask.

But, I read how of the 62 mass murders in the past three decades, 38 were by gunmen with mental issues. If we are to scurry around (and justifiably we are) trying to figure out how to stop these crimes, and mental instability is one of the largest common denominators (if not the largest), then we would be foolish not to look at what we can do to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally unstable.

Are we, as family members, to be required to rip the weapons out of their hands?

Should we have laws requiring everyone who gets a gun to pass a psych evaluation?

Or, do we simply need to step up our counseling of these people? 

Or is love enough? Do we simply need to step up our love of them, reducing the odds of them becoming so frustrated as to take the life of another person?

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