Newton, CT Dec 2012

I'm not a pro-gun advocate anymore than I'm a pro-life advocate. I take the same stance on both issues, you should have a choice. But there are limits to my understanding. I don't think you should be able to abort a child at 6 months along in pregnancy and I don't think you need to have automatic weapons as a choice of self defense or hunting. No man goes out to deer hunt with an AK47.
 Let's get our hands around this issue, but let's not let that distract from MENTAL ILLNESS and the fact we have nearly 0 institutions for people who need long-term mental health aid. Our country is sick and it's not because people are defaulting on their loans, want immediacy of their lusts, it's because mental illness is a very real threat to all of us. Keep in mind, governments both state and federal SHUT DOWN mental institutions throughout the 70's and 80's. Those individuals did not disappear, they went to the streets. And now they are inside our prisons because there is no where else to put them. "It's time to address the why," as a friend so eloquiently put, "there will always be a how." So let's encourage legislators to put OUR money where WE will see lives changed.