Here in California Gov. Reagan shut down the mental hospitals due to budget cuts. Mental patients were released only to become homeless, angry and confused. Fast forward to 2011, the mentally ill are still homeless, angry, confused and are on long waiting lists to get professional help. Here in California the parks are filled with the homeless and mentally ill.

I have a personal friend who lost her job, lost her health insurance and became seriously depressed. She tried to take her life, we found her just in time, she was hospitalized for 3 days, billed $14,000.00 for her stay. The doctor told her to see therapist when she was released, she contacted the agency, a six week wait to see the therapist. No medication was dispensed to ease her mental burden and six weeks looked like six years to her. Several of us had contacts in the medical community, she was helped immediately, others are not so fortunate.

Now imagine a mentally ill person who has a gun or has the opportunity to get a gun. Catastrophic situations occur like Tucson.


My solution is to provide medical treatment, comprehensive medical treatment for the mentally ill and stop selling guns to everyone. Let us treat our Americans with dignity and humanity for any illness that they may have. Also let Americans walk freely knowing they will not be gunned down by a mentally ill person or angry person who just lost his or her temper and had a gun.