D.C. shift: Gun control to threat detection

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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/fort-hood-gun-control-mental-health-congress-barack-obama-105368.html

After an Iraq War veteran took the lives of three other people at Fort Hood on Wednesday, President Barack Obama, Pentagon officials and others in Washington agreed more must be done to spot “insider threats” before they strike.
But what almost no one is saying: change gun laws.


Rep. Ron Barber (D-Ariz.), who was shot alongside former Rep. Gabby Giffords in a Tucson, Ariz., parking lot, said the mental health focus should be on treatment and prevention – not guns.


My DW just spent the last three weeks writing a mental health grant for her clinic. 250k a year for the first two years, this is a new never before grant so hopefully they'll get it. During writing she showed me a graph were 40% of their patients would benefit from MH treatment. Currently our two closest MH treatment centers won't take Medicaid patients, this grant would enable them to provide outpatient treatment.

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1. A step in the right direction. k&r n/t