“More money for mental health won’t stop these mass murderers,” former Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Professor Dr. Arthur Berg and pro-gun academic John Lott declare. Most mass murderers were in psychiatric care before they committed their heinous crime. Specifically, Elliot Rodger (Isla Vista), Ivan Lopez (the recent Fort Hood shooter), Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook elementary), James Holmes (“Batman” movie theater) and Seung-Hui Cho (Virginia Tech).
Why didn’t the shrinks prevent the attacks and what can we do to stop deranged people from going postal?
It’s possible that added training to understand these unusual cases may help improve their diagnoses. Yet it’s also simply hard to predict these extremely rare outcomes. There are no cheap or easy answers. No one wants a dangerous person to have a weapon, but our mental-health system simply can’t be the last line of defense. There are just too many mistakes.
Potential victims need to be able to defend themselves.http://nypost.com/2014/06/01/why-psychiatrists-fail-in-stopping-mass-killers/
