Breitbart and others had articles about the CT shooting and how the shooting could have been prevented had CT passed SB 452, a mental health act. Along with those articles have been discussions relating to mental health care and treatment for people who have mental health issues.
Several articles criticized the defeat of the bill.
Breitbart wrote: "Why didn't the legislation pass? Because the ACLU and other "civil liberties" groups and individuals cried foul."
There are a lot of cases I don't agree with the ACLU on; however, this is one time I agree with the
ACLU. SB452 was a bad bill that would not have stopped Adam Lanza. From all accounts, Adam was not violent; nor did he appear to pose any danger to himself or others. Reading through
SB452, the patient has to exhibit a threat to themselves or others. So it's doubtful this would have prevented Lanza from his massacre.
The fear I have with SB452 and any other mental health bills is: who decides if the patient is a danger to society and is forcibly institutionalized and medicated against their will?
Current CT law requires two "impartial" physicians to agree on committing a patient; SB452 would have needed only one court-appointed physician to do so. Even after being released from an institution, SB 452 would require the patient to continue taking medications prescribed to them, and if they did not, they would be forcibly institutionalized again. The use of law enforcement - state or local police - could be used to detain and transport the patient to the facility. How is that a good thing?
I have very serious reservations when it comes to mental health institutions. A man who went to a church I attended a couple decades ago was arrested for theft and put in jail. Unable to make bail, he remained til his trial. He tried hanging himself in jail, so they committed him to the state mental health institution. I visited this man several times, and watched in horror as this man who was once completely sane and intelligent turned into a shell of man who could barely piece together a complete sentence. The first few visits he complained about medications he was being made to take. He said they were hurting him and causing him to be sick. Almost a year after he was committed, I visited him the last time. He was gaunt, eyes dark and hollow, mumbling, crying. He died soon after from "natural causes."
I don't believe it was natural causes at all. It was the junk drugs they forced him to take. He was murdered by court-ordered "psychiatrists" who prescribed and forcibly gave him deadly drugs.
For all the talk about gun control, I'm most concerned with what will be passed regarding mental healthcare. We all should be.
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