Progressive Democrat Issue 118: VIRGINIA FOCUS: Best Wishes

I just want to send my best wishes to Virginia Tech and the surrounding community. It is always disturbing when a person's private demons explode into public tragedy. Our society, like most societies, doesn't deal well with phsychological problems. The result is people with psychological problems may have a hard time getting help and, even when warning signs are seen and noted, there may be little we can do to prevent such tragedies. The gunman needed help. He never got help partly because he refused it and partly because our society really has never figured out what to do with people who are deeply troubled but functional. I hope we can learn from these tragedies, but too often we do not.

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