On Monday, Feb. 18, 2013 Austin American Statesman
posted an article titled “Raymond: Invest more in mental health.” It talks
about the massive amount of murders in Texas; the author is giving two
important examples that happened not too long ago; “Aug. 1, Charles Whiteman
had climbed the University of Texas’ iconic tower and set his rifle’s sights on
46 innocent victims, killing 14 after murdered his wife and mother “and “Adam
Lanza, who slaughtered 20 innocent children in Newtown, Conn., just two months
ago.”
The author says if
people would ask him what he thinks about all of this murders going on he would
say that it surely involves some sort of mental illness or treatable condition.
He says that “Texas’ budget is not in the financial bind it was two years ago”
so they can and must do more to come up with something more beneficial in this
critical area. Raymond want Texas to take care of our children, it is not okay
to let”crazy” people go into the schools and just kill them.
The author seems
to be very serious and he really wants our state to spend more of their money
in mental health. I totally agree with him because every day we’re seeing more
and more deaths around Texas. The local news just shows crimes and violence,
video games are full of guns, blood and they’re about killing people. Our children
are growing up so fast and the population is getting bigger and bigger in our
state but, what’s the point if they’re surrounded by things they’re not
supposed to know or see at their age.
The article does
mention an interesting point but not in detail, every single person should do a
mental check up regularly and doctors should definitely keep a record, if they
find something different on someone they should arrange a treatment session,
that way we can avoid crimes and murders.
Now in days, a lot
of states react late, they want to fix things once the crimes had been made.
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