Jason_Iowa
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In equality is what causes the most problems
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By every account I've seen, the Lanza's lived in a home valued at 1.6 million dollars and Ms Lanza's income was well over a quarter of a million dollars per year from her divorce settlement. Income was not the issue here. The problem is that it is next to impossible to institutionalize a mentally deranged person in this country. Thanks to groups like the ACLU, the courts have determined that a mentally ill person has a right to refuse treatment, unless they have demonstrated a propensity to harm themselves or others. Unfortunately the bar is set so high to prove that potential for harm, dangerously mentally ill people are released to the streets on a regular basis. In a typical scenario, a mentally ill person engages in some form of violence; he/she is arrested and placed in the mental health wing of a local hospital for evaluation. After a few weeks of no behavior problems in the hospital, a court hearing is held and the mentally ill person is released back to the custody of their family or to some halfway house where they just walk away. It is sad really, that under the guise of protecting the rights of the mentally ill, we allow them to be untreated victims and perpetrators of crime.