Topic : 01/07 Omaha Mall Shooting: A Mother’s Guilt

Dear Dr. Phil,

   After watching this show, I had to respond about something you said. You said if a child has extreme mental problems, you should go get help. My question is... where is this " help" ?

  I have a 15 yr. old son with major mental problems. I have tried the last 4 years to find this boy help. He is making our home life an absolute hell on earth. I have found there is not much of help out there for mentally ill kids. I have even e-mailed your show 8 times looking for help... no respond. I've just accepted the fact that there is nothing out there. The crazy laws , as they are, a 14 yr. old mentally ill person, can make the decision to take meds or not. I find it crazy but true.

  I just think we shouldn't throw stones at the families of these mentally ill people, you don't know what they tried to do to get help.

                                                                                    Thanks,

                                                                                       Peggy Leonard

Anything can be made into a weapon of convenience, a hand , a knife, a car, a plane, and a toothbrush.ect. If was not a AK-47 then it would of been something else this young man would of used.

So please explain how  banding  the AK-47 will help and stop acts like these from happening??? If this person could not get his hands on a gun then he would of used the next thing that could be used as a weapon like a car killing just as many if not more. Its not the tool used to kill its the person using that tool that kills and thats the bigger issue and is impossible to stop, so people like you go to the gun as if the gun killed and not the person behind the gun to make yourself feel like you are doing something when in fact you are like the parents of this young man ignoring what is , because it is easier.

You comparing the mother on the show to some of these parents that are posting? The mother on the show walked away she didn't spend her time looking for help for her son she let others support her son and they didn't do a good job of it. Are we going to see children from good homes go bad, sure we are but its NO where compared to the to the children that come from homes that abuse them. Look at our prisons they are not filled with children from good homes they are filled with men and women that come from parents that abandon them abused them ignored them, this has a impact on us when we allow people like this to  breed. The mother on this show does have a part in who her child became she did not do what she needed to do to protect her child, she did what was easier for her to do and that was walk away and let this child be raised by abuse, sexual and phyical. She did not fight for him advocate for him she just gave birth to him and left him.

I would like to know how you came up with that if this kid was raised with love and not sexual and phyical abuse he would still be the same person dealing with the same issues.

The 2nd Amendment give us the right to bare arms to protect ourselfs and should not be given away so lightly. A attack  and the need for guns is hard for many to understand, But what about a natural disaster like hurricane  that you are left to defend your family and home from those who take that opportunity to take what is not theirs by any means they need to do so. NO phones NO police just you  remembering that you voted to give your right away to defend and protect your family while leaving the guns still in the hands of those that will do you harm.  Some should think of this, and stop thinking that it can't happen to you.