The Real Tragedy Isn't the Gun Violence

Another mentally unbalanced person has killed people.  You'll be hearing renewed cries from all of the regulars.  Obama will call for more gun control. Mothers Against Every Thing will show pictures of innocent victims.  More hypocrites from Hollywood who mistake their ability to memorize words in order and repeat them back as anything more than a parlor trick will have loads to say.  They will all say the same thing.  Guns are awful, get rid of guns.  They will say this from the safety of the guns that protect them and their loved ones.  They will say this from the safety of their gated communities, their armed guards, and their highly reinforced protective detail.  I am certain that even the yeti will take a break from telling me what to feed my children will have an opinion on guns, while safely protecting her children at home and at school with an arsenal.
But the tragedy isn't the guns.  The tragedy is the mental illness that these people are walking around with, untreated.  The crazy person who killed all those people in Colorado had slipped the cheese from his cracker a long time before he killed all of those people in the movie theater.  Why didn't the people close to him do something?
The mentally ill man who shot and stabbed those people the other day was no different.  He was making and posting videos online.  I tried to watch one.  It gave me the willies.  Didn't anyone in his family watch one?  Weren't they paying any attention to him?  I'm not a doctor by any means, but I can spot crazy when it is dripping off of the screen.  Can't you?  Couldn't they?
The man who shot Gabrielle Giffords was in desperate need of help.  Why wasn't he getting it?  Perhaps if he had gotten the help he needed before he shot Ms. Giffords- she and her husband wouldn't feel the need to try and take my guns away from me now.
Mental illness is a growing problem in the world.  I don't know if it's because people are doing a worse job of raising their children, or if we as a society are just going to hell.  But the problem isn't the firearm.  If anything, the firearm in the hand of a non crazy person is the solution.
When the crazy person at Virginia Tech tried to gun down everyone in sight, it didn't work.  Do you know why?  Because in Virginia, many of those potential victims were armed.  The msm won't include that little nugget, but it was people with concealed carry permits and lawful weapons that stopped the carnage from being as bad as it could have been.
Better mental health screening is part of the answer to the growing problem of crazy people and their armed rampages. Responsible armed citizens is the other part of the answer.  Think about it.  You'll thank me later.