Reply #40: "Blow every man in town" ???? [View All]

[louinc]

Many mentally ill people have religious delusions. Doesn't mean that God is telling them to hurt themselves or hurt other people, it's just the nature of the disease. So first we should distance religion from mental illness if we are to discuss the issue in an intelligent manner.

Domestic violence is usually just that domestic. For what ever reason violence against another person is done by a family member or someone they know. Father beats wife, wife beats kids, kids kill parents, uncle rapes nephew or niece, on and on. Then of course there's date rape. It's rare that an act of violence is committed against a totally unknown person but obviously does happen.

I'm sure this woman has a history of mental illness, can't lock them all up, so they stop taking their meds and the voices come back. Most times they are not acted upon obviously this time it was. Perhaps as a society we should look at how to help these people. Mandatory medication compliance, long term birth control alternatives, taking children away from mentally ill people. Most of these options can't be enforced as we do live in American, so from time to time, the kids or some other innocent person gets the short end of the stick.

louinc