Originally Posted by Rochard

Get involved and do what? The only thing we can do is make a comment to the local police. At that point they would have to assess his mental health - which might require an over night stay at the local hospital. They might take his firearms away from him - he has a Glock and an AR15 - or they might decide he needs to be living in assisted living or worse.

No matter what happens, I've lost a friend. The mother is 89 years old and say she just says "Oh, that's John being John" and in the mean he decorates his house like a fourteen year old. His brothers and sisters don't want to face the chance of him being institutionalized.

My friend is really sad, and he's gotten a lot worse in the past ten years. He used to be able to hide his issues but he can't any longer. Any discussion past who the President is and he's lost. If you ask him about North Korea he'll have no clue, and when you ask him about 9/11 he'll say "that's sad" but couldn't tell you airplanes were involved. He has a 50/50 chance of remembering what day of the week it is. His brain shut down in the 1970s and that's all he'll ever know. Any time he gets confused, he'll talk about his ex-wife and his kids - whom has hasn't seen in ten years.



Not at all. Instead of even having a discussion about mental health or new guns, they only said "guards in schools". No discussion about who is going to pay for this, the dangers of having kids surrounded by armed guards, or the fact that during school shootings where guards are present it doesn't change anything.

They had armed guards at Columbine, spent a fortune for them, and at the end of day it failed to help in any way.

There was no chance of any discussion coming out of the NRA. At the very least we can all agree that people with mental health issues should be restricted from having firearms, but the NRA refused to even discuss it. Now the government is going to do what it wants without any input from the NRA.

The NRA used to be about gun safety. Now the NRA gets it's money from the gun industry. They are less interested in gun safety, and much more interested in putting armed guards in school - more training, more guns, and more people being paid to carry guns. Win win for the NRA.