ANAYLIS ,ALERT AND ACT........3 STANDOUT SOULTIONS

www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/2...hooters-q-a-00035762

POLITICO: So, what are the solutions?

Densley: There are things we can do right now as individuals, like safe storage of firearms or something as simple as checking in with your kid.

Peterson: Then we really need resources at institutions like schools. We need to build teams to investigate when kids are in crisis and then link those kids to mental health services. The problem is that in a lot of places, those services are not there. There’s no community mental health and no school-based mental health. Schools are the ideal setting because it doesn’t require a parent to take you there. A lot of perpetrators are from families where the parents are not particularly proactive about mental health appointments.

POLITICO: In your book, you say that in an ideal world, 500,000 psychologists would be employed in schools around the country. If you assume a modest salary of $70,000 a year, that amounts to over $35 billion in funding. Are you seeing any national or state-level political momentum for even a sliver of these kind of mental health resources?

Densley: Every time these tragedies happen, you always ask yourself, “Is this the one that’s going to finally move the needle?” The Republican narrative is that we’re not going to touch guns because this is all about mental health. Well then, we need to ask the follow-up question of what’s the plan to fix that mental health problem. Nobody’s saying, “Let’s fund this, let’s do it, we’ll get the votes.” That’s the political piece that’s missing here.

POLITICO: Are Democrats talking about mental health?

Densley: Too often in politics it becomes an either-or proposition. Gun control or mental health. Our research says that none of these solutions is perfect on its own. We have to do multiple things at one time and put them together as a comprehensive package. People have to be comfortable with complexity and that’s not always easy.

Three expensive solutions that have little chance of being cost effective. Both the Parkland and Uvalde shooter were on the radar of their schools. (The Uvalde shooter actually targeted the school where his grandmother worked.) I just don't think America is at a point where you can start forcing 14 year old children into mandatory counseling sessions. And would it be effective? the DARE program didn't seem to discourage drug use.
Plus you would stigmatize the kids going onto college or future employment. Many parents would object to this.
A decade or more ago there was a plan to get troublesome kids, especially males, phramaceuticals. That program had limited results and might have even caused Coulmbine. One of the shooters had wanted to join the Marines but they wouldn't take him because of the drugs he had been taking by prescription.

Is there a connection between the shootings and scoial media? Probably. Shooters are committing their crimes online these days. A big change from the days of Starkweather.

FredHayek wrote: Three expensive solutions that have little chance of being cost effective. Both the Parkland and Uvalde shooter were on the radar of their schools. (The Uvalde shooter actually targeted the school where his grandmother worked.) I just don't think America is at a point where you can start forcing 14 year old children into mandatory counseling sessions. And would it be effective? the DARE program didn't seem to discourage drug use.
Plus you would stigmatize the kids going onto college or future employment. Many parents would object to this.
A decade or more ago there was a plan to get troublesome kids, especially males, phramaceuticals. That program had limited results and might have even caused Coulmbine. One of the shooters had wanted to join the Marines but they wouldn't take him because of the drugs he had been taking by prescription.

Is there a connection between the shootings and scoial media? Probably. Shooters are committing their crimes online these days. A big change from the days of Starkweather.

NOT mandatory.....a "tracking" because.........

POLITICO: You’ve written about how mass shootings are always acts of violent suicide. Do people realize this is what’s happening in mass shootings?

Peterson: I don’t think most people realize that these are suicides, in addition to homicides. Mass shooters design these to be their final acts. When you realize this, it completely flips the idea that someone with a gun on the scene is going to deter this. If anything, that’s an incentive for these individuals. They are going in to be killed.

It’s hard to focus on the suicide because these are horrific homicides. But it’s a critical piece because we know so much from the suicide prevention world that can translate here.

HA,
Congratulations!
A post of a citation, 27 paragraphs without any comment from you. A new record.
Perhaps MMT can simply reprint the politico.com website. Though I believe they would have serious legal issues.

WHY, THANK U....what I am guessing u fail to realize is....a bolded statement is MY THOUGHT PROCESS.
if u would like me to insert I AGREE, altho redundant,I can do that.

MY POV is always in agreement with the articles I post....(for the most part,unless I am pointing out an egregious error.)

Suicide by cop?
Probably that is the intent sometimes, Uvalde police chief must have thought it was a hostage situation, the only reason not to storm the building.

Did see an interesting tweet from AP, the Uvalde police department has determined that all the casualties were caused by the shooter. Were people thinking the police had killed children and teachers by accident?

homeagain wrote: WHY, THANK U....what I am guessing u fail to realize is....a bolded statement is MY THOUGHT PROCESS.
if u would like me to insert I AGREE, altho redundant,I can do that.

MY POV is always in agreement with the articles I post....(for the most part,unless I am pointing out an egregious error.)

during my 16 years of education, I was always taught to read, comprehend, then summarize in my own words. No offense, but just reading random writer's opinions is boring since none of them ever post their opinions on this board and never will. It's always more interesting to see what YOUR brain can produce.

MY THOUGHT PROCESS/MINDSET IS...there is far too much talk,analysis,alignment with those in power positions...LOBBYISTS,NRA provide action that has been ABSENT FOR DECADES. The articles I post r a reflection ...I AM NOT ALONE IN THIS ,THERE R PROFESSIONALS,IN VARIOUS FIELDS, THAT R SPEAKING OUT. I do not have the microphone,but they do. So KNOW the articles relate it far better than I could....KNOW that I am not just some loosey,goosey liberal that lives in Utopia and rides a unicorn. IF u
WANT TO REALLY KNOW WHAT i FEEL,IT WOULD HAVE TO BE IN PERSON,BECAUSE I COULD NOT GET THE WORDS PAST THE MODS.