Obama finally doing something right.

[Mr Khan]

thranx said:
would be better if he actually addressed the real issue, mental health. All of these acts of violence we have seen still would of occurred even if guns were outlawed and not available. They would simply use some other method to cause mayhem, weather it be bombs, using vehicles as weapons, setting fires, etc. If you want these acts of violence to stop we need to find a way to deal with the mentally handicapped/psychotics. Our jails are too crowded and our police are too busy jailing and prosecuting drug crimes and criminals that they do not have the space/funding/time to adequately deal with the mentally unstable.

We're generally pretty good about mental health, actually. The problem is how to effectively create a filter for the early warning signs (which are often telegraphed well in advance) without starting to demonize everyone who doesn't quite fit in (which would be both unfair and counter-productive, as it would just cause such people to feel ostracized and make them more likely to go bad)