03-22-2018, 04:41 PM
(03-22-2018, 03:54 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: I was deliberately being a wiseass, just to butt into the conversation.
But mental health practice is generally reactive rather than proactive. A diagnosis is not a prognostication. You can draw certain reasonable assumptions, such as this person is diagnosed with pre-frontal deficit, therefore they are more likely to commit a violent act in the future than someone who does not have that condition. But there is no way anyone could ever say with certainty that that person will pick up a gun and go on a spree until the act is underway.
Which is exactly why I think that tying mental health and gun violence together is not a productive thing.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR