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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quick_Draw_McGraw" data-source="post: 2026370" data-attributes="member: 3286">Violence by the mentally ill is a symptom of a massive problem in our society that we have with dealing with the mentally ill.  He was right to call those that kill children monsters, but the focus has to be on how do we STOP these people from being monster in the first place, and what can be done to limit monster's access to tools that can be used for violence.  Look at nearly every mass shooting in America, and you have a clinically diagnosed crazy person on the other end.  A mentally ill person who doesn't get help is VERY LIKELY to be prone to acts of violence.To reference a 15 year old video game just screams to the pop culture loving news media that the NRA is out of touch.  To spend more time talking about a culture of violence brought on by the entertainment industry, when you make a 2 second passing remark about the mentally ill is a dumb move.  We could actually fix some problems if we brought attention to the mentally ill, and people could focus more on who these monstrous killers are, and not what they used for their acts of voilence.The anti crowd doesn't want to talk about what we can do to prevent so many killers in society, and the NRA is more then happy to let the anti crowd guide the conversation.They are right about having an armed guard at every school, and not limiting people's rights to defend themselves in public places like schools, but that can't be the crown jewel of their plan.If we can't turn the conversation to focus on the real problems the actual "killers" then we won't win this war of public opinion.</blockquote>

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