We had a patient in acute psychosis arive on the unit with a gun in their bag. Like, so psychotic she was saying she was seeing demons and was interacting with those demons more than she was able to interact with us. The ED had metal detectors that should have caught it and had her down there for 8 hours with that bag in the room with her. She had all the American hospital bedside essentials, call bell, water pitcher, gun, and TV remote! They’re really lucky they didn’t get someone shot.
She was willing to take some Haldol and got pretty lucid pretty quickly, and when the cops showed up to collect the firearm she was able to at least give a statement (I don’t remember exactly but I do remember thinking it sounded… less than completely factual). She got charged with the same thing though iirc. I think she probably knew more about the legality of her obtaining a gun than she was letting on, but that also doesn’t discount the role of psychosis in this; the paranoia alone could’ve caused her to feel even illicitly obtaining a gun was necessary.
None of these things would even remotely justify boiling someone alive.
On the front page earlier today was an account of somebody who carried a gun; in two separate instances, people from his neighborhood ambushed him and shot him (and in one instance it was verified on security footage that he defended himself with it after he’d been shot, and would have been killed without having the gun on him). In both cases he got charged with unlawful possession and imprisoned for the gun that saved his life.
We had a patient in acute psychosis arive on the unit with a gun in their bag. Like, so psychotic she was saying she was seeing demons and was interacting with those demons more than she was able to interact with us. The ED had metal detectors that should have caught it and had her down there for 8 hours with that bag in the room with her. She had all the American hospital bedside essentials, call bell, water pitcher, gun, and TV remote! They’re really lucky they didn’t get someone shot.
She was willing to take some Haldol and got pretty lucid pretty quickly, and when the cops showed up to collect the firearm she was able to at least give a statement (I don’t remember exactly but I do remember thinking it sounded… less than completely factual). She got charged with the same thing though iirc. I think she probably knew more about the legality of her obtaining a gun than she was letting on, but that also doesn’t discount the role of psychosis in this; the paranoia alone could’ve caused her to feel even illicitly obtaining a gun was necessary.
None of these things would even remotely justify boiling someone alive.
On the front page earlier today was an account of somebody who carried a gun; in two separate instances, people from his neighborhood ambushed him and shot him (and in one instance it was verified on security footage that he defended himself with it after he’d been shot, and would have been killed without having the gun on him). In both cases he got charged with unlawful possession and imprisoned for the gun that saved his life.