Dr. Ablow: We Need the Courts to Enforce Psychiatric Treatment

RUSH EXCERPT:

ABLOW: "Well, number one, I would say please don’t get distracted by thinking this is a gun issue. It isn’t. All you’ll have a creative killer if you disarm the killer. They will use something else. Worst episode of school violence 193738 kids killed by explosives. Not a gun. Listen, this isn’t that hard. Most of the assay Atlantas are male. Most of them are socially astro sized. Most have a fascination with video games and with weapons. If you even have a course filter that leads to a referral to voluntary or even involuntary outpatient medical treatment. Psychiatric treatment. Inpatient when needed, you will catch 75% of these cases before they ever happen. You know, we say social media is creating. This to some extent it is. It’s also testimony of the fact of how much we are able to ignore how callus we have become in this safety net that there is this trail in some of these cases where you say oh, it’s all over the Internet. Well, we have got to give people a known way like at the tip of their fingers where they say this is what we do when you have these concerns."