The story of the next mass murderer | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This article originally appeared in the Beaufort Observer.

And the answer is NOT how to keep him from getting a gun

    This story has the hallmarks of a perfect storm.

    Consider:

    The Governor just last week swung a deal to give away Dorothea Dix to allow it to become a park to attract visitors to Raleigh. While one part of her staff was working out the legal and political detail of this abandonment of the state's most notable mental institution another part of her staff was working on budget machinations to keep "group homes" operating.

    Two women have recently been killed in Beaufort County in violent domestic violence incidents after the state closed the local shelter for battered women. The bureaucrats and two power politicians closed the shelter in order to move the money to their home counties. Neither is still in office but the shelter has not been re-opened.

    A recent discussion of the need for a new jail in Beaufort County included an acknowledgment that the need has grown for special cells for those with mental illnesses.

    A Beaufort Observer reported was recently accosted by a total stranger outside the Beaufort County Courthouse, apparently attracted to the camera and video equipment the reporter was carrying. The woman and a younger woman with her, apparently the girlfriend of the woman's son, were desperate to "get somebody to do something" to help he son who was, according to her "having another fit." "He's going to kill me or somebody else if they don't do something to help him."

    Two years ago a young man suffering from chronic pain called the Washington Police Department and told them he had taken pain medications and alcohol and needed help. The police responded with mass force, provoking an all-day standoff which final ended with the young man taken to the local psychiatric ward of the local hospital. Once released from the hospital the "system" raised not a finger to help the young man. He copped a plea but nothing was done to even check on his physical or mental condition.

    After several mass shooting, including the most recent in which 20 elementary school students were killed by a deranged 20-year old, the best our President, Attorney General and other liberals could do was proclaim that we have to have a national conversation about guns. And this remarkable display of wisdom came from the same president who recent cut funding to school for security.

    There is not one shred of evidence and common sense tells any rational, logical person that guns are no more the problem here that automobiles are the problem with the slaughter evoked on our highways from alcohol and drugs.

    And speaking of drugs, and the need for a new jail, what is clearly obvious is that our jails and prisons are chocked full of people who have committed drug or drug-related offences.

    No, the problem is no more the gun than it is the trigger that is pulled by a deranged lunatic. But we do less and less to help these mentally troubled people and the ones they live and work with.

    Click here to read a mother's story which is all too often repeated all across this land, while politicians try to make hay over guns.