Flawed Glass

I am not a psychologist. I have eight graduate hours in psychology (just enough to be dangerous), including a four-hour course in abnormal psychology, which I took in 1970. So even the little education I have in the field is seriously dated. But I have access to resources and know how to do research. I also have training and certification in several counselling models and in conflict resolution, again somewhat dated. So, I have some familiarity with the language and can recognize most symptoms of mental disorders, even if I can’t name them, and that comprises the layman’s perspective I bring to address a sweeping and controversial topic. My comments here will comprise as much question as statement. The impetus for writing is “Guns don’t kill; people do.” I actually agree with that statement . My concern is that at no level of policymaking and administration with capacity to make a difference is anything being done to address the issue of people who kill with guns. The dismissive appro...

  Happy Fourth of July, America! My celebration will have a cloud over it. Two more mass shootings overnight; ten in the last seven days (and today isn’t half over yet!) Eleven people killed, eighty wounded, and only two shooter/suspects arrested. More than 200 thus far this year, and in each of the last three years more than 600, averaging almost two per day! 4243 mass shooting deaths in the last 9½ years (source: Gun Violence Archive ~  ​How many US mass shootings have there been in 2023? - BBC News ). The numbers are devastating, and the fact that it continues unabated and unchallenged is completely baffling. Why is nobody with authority and position doing anything concrete to stop this? The second amendment is sacrosanct and permanent. For at least the next several generations there will never be enough votes in congress, nor enough states in the union to overturn it. And its unflinching cult will not consider any boundaries or limitations or qualifications. So eliminatin...