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Guest Column: Are We Living In A Safe Environment?

Surjit Singh Flora, 24 Jul, 2018 01:39 PM
  • Guest Column: Are We Living In A Safe Environment?
A mass shooting in Toronto's Danforth neighborhood has left two people dead and 12 people sent to the hospital.
 
 
In a day or two police investigating department will release the name of the shooter and also justified shooter was suffering from mental health illness problem, the chapter will close.
 
 
Mental illness health problem is the biggest issue today in the society. Many of them due to various diagnoses, specialists, and meds, and for society in general. Not because there’s anything wrong with being mentally unwell, until someone bullied, or abused by others, and they never try to understand the person who is suffering from mental illness issues.
 
 
Later that abuse and the bullied victim’s Poor understanding turns to fear. Fear turns to hate, or even worse, apathy.it turns to anger, Sometimes it’s the apathy that’s the worst part of everyone.
 
 
It’s probably the crazy peoples, those blame every issue imaginable on people who are usually more of a risk to themselves than anyone else. Increases in violent crime? Those people suffering from mental illness carries enough burden of stigma, suffering, and death.
 
 
Rather, Terribly, monstrously Blaming other people, we should be helping these kinds of people and admitting our society has issues that need to be fixed and it’s not easy.
 
 
 
 
On April 23rd when a 25-year-old Alek Minassian from Richmond Hill drove his van on the sidewalk of Yonge Street between Finch and Sheppard, plowing through pedestrians and indiscriminately hitting almost everything in its path killed 10, injured 14.
 
 
Alex was labeled mental health Illness and he was suffering from significant social or mental disability.
 
 
After the match, people feel more vulnerable? And as cities go on alert because of the threat of future attacks, fear can color our daily life routines and worldviews.
 
It is probably not a surprise that a mental illness person attack can have a major impact on people’s mental health.
 
 
The study shows that after several months the elevated stress levels were significantly reduced. But, a residual level of worry remained.
 
 
We would expect to see an increase in psychiatric disorders among people who were directly affected, or who lived in the city at the time of the attack.
 
 
Most common is a fear is that, that something bad could happen in the future. This might be the fear of having a panic attack while standing in line at the grocery or in the big public gathering.
 
 
 
 
Underlying this fear is the idea that what you don’t know might kill you. A mass shootings or Terrorism activate this fear of the unknown, that carnage could happen anywhere at any time, in places that we have always assumed were safe.
 
 
Question is that, for how long these kinds of horrific attacks we have to take them as a granted under the mental illness umbrella? All leave of governments needs to get together and come up with the proper and solid solution. they can’t just get together have a cup of coffee, few press releases, and shine on the TV, and this it, now things getting out of control, it’s time to get serious and act.
 
 
Canadian National Exhibition starting from August 17 to September 3rd, in these two weeks, hundreds of people come out and enjoy the family fun.
 
 
But after these kinds of crisis, are we going to be in the safe environment? Increasing the security, police patrol, how much will help to reduce the crimes.
 
 
To stop this, need a strong gun policy, Law in place.
 
 
Prayer certainly has its place in a society plagued with violence, but “faith without work is dead.” No matter how sincere the thoughts and prayers, they are meaningless if we fail to follow up with necessary action she added.
 
 
 
 
Research indicates that mostly our youths getting into bad habits such as drug, drinking, and Guns Gang groups. After they get high on the drug, they act what they excessive exposure to gun violence through movies, TV, and video -Xbox games, whatever they watch and play they are behaving same violently toward others. 
 
 
If we look more closely, many youth gun or stabbing, or stick fight accident happens, they were related to Mental health. If we see all this as a mental perspective, one solution is obvious: limiting access to guns. Many of the modern countries do not allow their citizens access to weapons, handguns, semiautomatic assault, and high-capacity magazines. So why not Canada ban the guns?
 
 
Brampton-based Surjit Singh Flora is a veteran journalist and freelance writer.

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