Do You Think It Should Be Mandatory That?

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High school and college kids be tested for drugs, and severe mental illnesses before they enter the school year, at least 2X a year and be administered medication if necessary by a school nurse? That way what happened at Columbine and Virginia Tech won’t happen elsewhere.

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Laxer on October 26, 2009 5:27 am
It makes sense. If we make kids get shots and physicals to make sure they are healthy and wont get anyone sick. Why not make sure they are mentally stable to. My thoughts is it is hard to tell when someone is ready to mentally break. Some of these incidents were caused by students who others thought seemed normal. Therefore, these screenings would do nothing more than segregate those who are not acceptable by societies view. I don’t like the idea, but it might come down to it.

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Question Addict on October 26, 2009 5:32 am
If this were to become law, I see HSing becoming more popular.

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gardensa on October 26, 2009 5:44 am
Most of these tragedies have little or nothing to do with diagnosable mental illnesses. Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill had severe mental illnesses, so without medication (they had none) they shouldn’t have been trusted to save the U.S. and Britain, respectively?
There is currently no way to tell with any accuracy WHO will act out against others, and really, it is more of a symptom of anger problems or sociopathy that causes these things, and those are not mental illnesses, really.
The whole “let’s force those crazies to take their pills” is a knee-jerk response to a problem that is very difficult to understand or solve. People with mental illness cause no more serious crime than people without mental illness, unless you start factoring in substance abuse. It would make more sense to lock up all men in the world, because they cause all the violent crime, than it would make sense to forcibly medicate mentally ill women. I’m not advocating either, I’m just saying your response is extreme and based on faulty information. Also, some of the mental illness drugs have DEATH as a side-effect in some people, you can’t morally justify giving out these drugs as a preventive measure. Others of these pills cause extreme obesity or disfiguring involuntary facial movements. Etc.

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Petey on October 26, 2009 6:18 am
I think you should be tested for fascism.
I hear it’s genetic, and you’re showing all the symptoms.

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fiVe on October 26, 2009 6:37 am
Mental illness doesn’t make you a killer, it makes you sick. Anyone can and does commit those crimes, not just the mentally ill.
You’re ignorantly advocating a loss of freedom and invasion of privacy due to something that is not truly preventable.

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Wolfpack on October 26, 2009 6:59 am
Not even safety is worth the loss of constitutional rights.
Along with the rights to bear arms, there is also a right to privacy & a right to not allow Gestapo type mental health people. I would never agree to my children or myself to being given exams by doctors I do not know.
The guy from VA Tech saw a counselor & was on medication – evil & jealousy can not be medicated.

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michele on October 26, 2009 7:17 am
No.
The role of an educational institution is not to treat mental illness, it is to educate. There are provisions for the dismissal of students with documented health issues which could pose a danger to themselves or others.
The VA Tech situation is a tragedy, to be sure. However, college students are (the vast majority, anyway) technically adults. Legislating personal health care matters for adults is a slippery slope we ought not go down.
~M~

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hey_bill on October 26, 2009 7:43 am
As far as Drugs YES schools are full of them but to say that a person with mental illness should not enter is crazy excuse the pun anycase is been researched that there is no profile for a person that shoots up schools drop out to A+ students have ether thought of or tryed to be the next gun man so as far as someone with a mental illness it don’t fly.

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Antonio R on October 26, 2009 8:36 am
No.

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