Perhaps the worst
thing officials and pundits can say, thinking they are blowing it off, is that
the shooter in Washington, D.C. was mentally ill.
One of the fathers of psychiatry, Carl Jung, back before
mobile phones and the Internet, estimated one in ten people were psychotic.
Thursday’s attack was a 66-year-old man, a home inspector
and construction worker, traveled 700 miles from Illinois to Washington.
He is being called a hero on some Facebook pages. He had been
a strong opponent of President Trump.
The most important single national issue of late is health
care. Was he angry that health care is likely to be denied to the poor,
disabled and mentally ill.
This is an issue that is heating up.
And where that was the reason for James T. Hodgkinson to
attack a field of baseball players made up of Republicans and their staffs may
never be known,
Under the laws he would have just gone on security. Was he
afraid President Trump might cut that off. He may have had pensions also.
Whether than argue on whether this is the start of more
violence we should consider something that is quite likely.
Events like this, I remember Columbine very well, lead to
copycats.
Efforts to repeal Obamacare may leave millions dying, with
no health care.
Millions of Americans are armed. If one is dying because he
or she cannot get decent health care what might they do?
Of course they should simply use their political rights but
what if they will be dead before anything can be done.
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