Nothing about Stillwater crash?

hckynutjohn · ‎06-15-2015

I can't believe nobody has started a thread about the travesty/death and 40+ people critically and seriously injured when a car ran through the crowd during the parade in Stillwater.

Hear a lot when people are killed and maimed by another means, but about this? The silence is deafening.

Have a lot more to say but not until I hear something from those that like to talk about mentally disturbed people being able to get a license for one of our rights, but not a peep about checks for the same type of people when it comes to driving.

NOTE: I am making no comments on the guilt or what caused this woman to drive into this crowd of so many people. What I did hear is her attorney say she has a mental illness. But?? She still had a license to drive, I think! Hey! If this stays on point and everyone plays nice, maybe this thread will stay up for awhile.

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kick · ‎02-01-2015

This is such a tragedy. I cannot imagine. The cause just doesn't fit the agenda of so many posters here.

My prayers go out to the victims and their loved ones.

MaggieMack · ‎10-01-2014

Completely senseless tragedy. Not only is she being tagged with mentally ill, she was apparently driving drunk. Maybe we need to go back to Prohibition to prevent these incidents in the future?

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millieshops · ‎03-09-2010

No matter the weapon, mental illness will always exacerbate the dangers. Add alcohol or some other drug and up the ante.

On that issue, I have no idea about the stats involved. I do know that getting too concentrated on mass killings tends to make us as a society ignore the much greater issue of the drip, drip, drip of daily deaths, many of which don't make headlines beyond their own neighborhoods.

missy1 · ‎03-10-2010

So sad.

I want to hear the toxicology reports.

Puzzle Piece · ‎06-29-2010

@hckynutjohn Whenever a tragedy of this sort is posted, it is taken down by the Moderators or someone complains due to the nature of the subject.

It was a horribly incident. I think I heard that both mental issues and alcohol may have been involved.

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qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

@Puzzle Piece is right. I have to agree with her. This upset me yesterday, someone does have to be responsible for this. Will wait to see how it turns out.

LTT1 · ‎03-09-2010

@hckynutjohn @qualitygal @Puzzle Piece @missy1 @millieshops

I saw the report and can't remember seeing the dad actually saying she was mentally ill, but don't remember if I saw him saying it.

Really, I have been wondering about "mental illness" not being treated for quite some time. My own mind screamed about it when teaching ED (emotionally disturbed) students... after all, teachers are not trained psychiatrists. And yet, we have people with extreme mental issues left un-treated in the classroom.

Now, ever since the tragedy at Columbine (when I first thought this) it has become public.

We in our cities, towns and homes, cannot be responsible for their actions. Something needs to be done, IMO.

~Have a Kind Heart, Fierce Mind, Brave Spirit~

silkyk · ‎03-03-2011

@missy1 wrote:

So sad.

I want to hear the toxicology reports.

Me too. I think a lot of these horrible incidents are do to prescribed drugs that are given FOR mental conditions. Many of these mood/mind altering drugs have violent side effects that are vastly underestimated and unreported.