Good thinking. Actually grapefruits themselves are dangerous, given that during World War II the United States used chemicals derived from citrus to manufacture explosives. However, I for one trust Sam to eat a grapefruit with a spork.

One grapefruit, that is.

OH NO!!!

I stand in solidarity with Sam. They can take my spork when they pry it from my cold dead fingers!

LMFAO

By the way it would be a relatively simple matter to require a doctor’s prescription for a firearm. That way there would be adequate restriction over those deemed medically inadvisable for gun ownership, as well as rock-solid patient-doctor confidentiality.

Of course, Sam might object because then one could no longer zip over to Walmart and buy a gun to commit a crime of passion.

I’m a gun owner, Rey is a gun owner. I’m sure there are many more gun owners who comment here as well.

As someone wrote yesterday:

‘Being for sensible gun laws does not make me anti-gun. Being for sensible traffic laws does not make me anti-car.’

Sam, I used to think you were smarter than this. Now I’m starting to have my doubts.

Unfortunately, a lot of people who are/were uninsured cannot afford such treatment — you do have to budget for doctor’s visits several times a year, too, so they can “check up with you” and write you a new prescription. The insurance companies themselves also used to throw major roadblocks in front of people who were taking anti-depressants, telling them that they had to get off the meds or they couldn’t get insured. And then, even though it wasn’t supposed to be that way, I know people who got let go from their jobs after bosses learned they were taking anti-depressants.

As Satouri said, the “proud” ones (or, in my experience, the ones with family members who can’t deal with “mental illness”) go off their meds or don’t take them to begin with. I will add that from what I have heard from doctors over the years, people will mood disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety, Bi-polar) usually want help and seek it out, while people with personality disorders (e.g., narcissism, borderline, psychopathy, sociopathy, anti-social disorder) think they are just fine the way they are and actively refuse treatment.

So maybe this Lacy fellow actually had a personality disorder (and the Bipolar diagnosis was wrong), or he had rip-roaring bipolar, but was also just a twisted up person. A lot of people who don’t fit the diagnostic criteria for mental illness (at least as administered by a run-of-the-mill healthcare provider) can still perform criminal acts or believe crazy ideas.

I understand concerns about categorizing anyone with a mental illness — meaning depression and Bipolar — as potentially dangerous. Obviously, since I am bipolar, I don’t like the idea. But there should be some middle ground for determining whether someone’s mental illness status plus prior acts of violence or well-formed-thoughts of such acts should mean that they probably shouldn’t be able to buy a gun legally.

Maybe you should actually look into just WHAT IS MEANT by expanded infrastructure. No men in clean white coats will be coming after you.

There will simply be more people looking out for your well being.

If you don’t believe that the law and society provide you with the tools to help protect your charges from themselves, from society, or society from them, then quit whining, speak out and demand wrap-around care for adolescents, mandatory outpatient treatment orders, and adequate/accessible bed space for acute care situations.

Do you think James Holmes, Jarred Loughner, Sueng-Hui Cho, Michael Wade Page, and Adam Lanza’s providers have just a few regrets? We all make mistakes or fall short despite our best efforts, but I have to believe you can redeem yourself, so would these providers please step forward as a new “Gang of Five” and lobby for a better system! Obama Care is here, you can shape reality for the better.

Thank you! Because I believe that these people don’t just turn their agenda’s against cops, there are those that are exacting worse behaviors upon citizens in our communities.

It is in line with terrorist beliefs and a cowards way of waging war upon innocent citizens. Except they are far worse because they are disguised as our neighbors.

Shot a cop.

And a “Sovereign Citizen.”

You know, when I read about the inner workings of some of these extremist groups, I’m struck by how mental illness keeps turning up. Raphael Ezekiel noted in “The Racist Mind” that the neo-Nazi leaders he interviewed always had a “pet crazy.”

And I recall the story about in the Intelligence Report some years ago about the neo-Nazis who left one of their women paralyzed for life, nearly killing her. The leader of that bunch was also taking a cocktail of meds for his bipolar issues.

And the guy who frightened Elie Wiesel in the hotel in San Francisco. Also bipolar.

Over and over again I read about these guys…bipolar.

And these people are supposed to be the “vanguard of the white race.” They think they’re superior to Garrett A. Morgan, Zora Neale Hurston, Whitney Moore Young, and Shirley Chisholm, because of the melanin content in their skin.

The elite of the white race. And they think they’re being held down and discriminated against by “reverse racism.”

You know, I’d like to see some of these guys take over a small, uninhabited island, or just set up a compound in the middle of nowhere, and try to run their own society, without any connection whatsoever, to the rest of the world. All by themselves. Make their own food, get their own power with solar panels, dig for their own water, the whole thing.

See how long the vanguard of the white race would last on its own, without Jews and blacks to whine about and blame.