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Originally Posted by cms36
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This does happen every so often in the Villages that there is some kind of shooting incident.
There is something people can do for survivors/victims of this. Bug the local librarians as well as the local law enforcement web-site managers to get links to the National Alliance on Mental Illness along with a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory. You can get these web-sites easily just by Googling but it is a way of public awareness and support of mental health and victim/witness survivor resources available in our Villages' community.
I have been pushing this off-and-on since I came of Talk of the Villages in July 2007 at least with respect to Florida Victim Services Directory.
My brother-in-law Jim became enamored of weapons like this and gradually became more and more mentally ill-- he thought my sister-in-law was an alien-- and eventually shot himself in the head killing himself in November of 2014 in a rural part of Virginia.
I have complicated views on weapons of self-defense but there are some people-- like my late brother-in-law Jim-- who should not have access to guns of any kind. I know that a car/truck is just as deadly a weapon in some situations but some control is better than little.
Also Google Taltarzac725. It should give you some ideas of what more you could do. That's my 224 613 Project. That's something I have been doing since January 1991 and what now I believe is making tremendous strides because a lot of people have had enough and will do anything to get involved as well as with helping the more and more victims and survivors these kind of crimes create.