Read the Express-News letters to the editor for June 27.
Several readers say blame for the Uvalde massacre should begin with the killer and lax gun laws. The focus on mental health and the flawed police response distracts from this.I am a clinical psychologist who has worked with many teens. It is very unlikely that someone with the characteristics of the Uvalde shooter would have asked for mental health treatment or accepted it if it were offered. Even a court order, if it could have been obtained, would not have forced him to benefit from treatment.
Politicians who want to avoid the complex issues of gun regulation are hopping on the “mental health” bandwagon as if that would have made a difference in Uvalde. It’s an important subject, but it’s being used as a decoy from the tougher question of teens accessing weapons of mass destruction.
As far as I’m concerned, the main blame goes to the shooter and to laws that allow an angry 18-year-old to purchase weapons such as he used, along with all the ammunition and paraphernalia. Now if we could only determine who allowed that to happen and take steps to prevent it from happening again.Roe v. Wade has been overturned, and 36 million women may no longer choose for themselves whether to give birth. In some states there are no exceptions for rape, incest or the mother’s health. This won’t affect all women equally. Some can afford to travel to states where abortion is still legal — mainly white women with economic means.
So, why not just vote the extremists out of power and let Congress pass a law making abortion legal? One problem is all those Jim Crow-like voter suppression laws in Texas and other red states making it hard for certain groups to even register to vote. Looks like they have all the bases covered.
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