Boating; Awful News & Letters
by boatguy Ed
I wanted to describe the “Dead End
Canal Yacht Club” Christmas parties joviality for you but I'm not
in the mood. Leave it to say that we all had a good time and the
arguments were kept to a minimum. The mood killer of course is the
news out of Newtown. Babies being killed by a mad, insane, evil young
man has pulled a black cloud over many festivities.
I have two observation on this
tragedy. First; Since we've closed all the mental hospitals and
allowed the insane to live among us in the 80's this country has
changed a lot. In my wife’s hometown there used to be a huge
facility, as big as any University. It was a terrible place that
housed sick people. After the State closed the place, most of the
patients were released to their families or to 'half way houses.'
The mental hospital was a terrible
place but it was also effective in housing, treating and isolating
the mentally ill. Now we send the insane to prison where they learn
to be criminally insane. Whatever this Asperger's Disease is, it's
imperative that we keep these depressed young men off the street and
out of the malls and schools. I heard one talking head say that it is
a form of Autism and the young men suffering eventually 'act out'
because they will never have a normal life. They often kill their
parents and others
Second; As far as guns go, better
background checks and more parental control is necessary! In China,
where they don't have guns, an insane man attacked 21 children in
their school with a machete, go figure? Now to the mail.
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