Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/16

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Subject: [Leica] Gun Control; Now Mental Illness
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:45:03 -0600
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Hi Frank,

More power to your daughter.  I suspect the same story holds for the US.  We 
had a local lady who was very vocal in the campaign to close the instituions 
in our state.  The results can be seen each night in the evening news from 
Nashville.................

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "FRANK DERNIE" <frank.dernie at btinternet.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Gun Control; Now Mental Illness


> My daughter used to work with homeless people. Now she works with the 
> mentally ill. She is a big hearted girl and I am very proud of her. I 
> could not do it.
> She told me that the largest group of homeless people in the UK are the 
> mentally ill.
> During the Thatcher years it was decided to release mentally ill patients 
> who were not considered dangerous into "care in the community". Those 
> without family to look after them ended up on the streets sleeping rough.
> This was done to reduce spending, to presumably pay for tax cuts for her 
> supporters.
> A good use of the money? I don't think so.
> FD
>
>
>
>>________________________________
>> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>Sent: Sunday, 16 December 2012, 18:57
>>Subject: Re: [Leica] Gun Control; Now Mental Illness
>>
>>Thanks, Tina. That is what should be getting the headlines, not gun
>>control. It all started when the state mental institutions were closed and
>>the patients were thrown into halfway houses and out in the street. The
>>do-gooders really outdid themselves this time.
>>
>>Jim Nichols
>>Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>
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