Off topic but concerning impartiality.
Did you see the piece "60 Minutes" "Armed and Dangerous,"did on mentally ill and guns? They keep re-editing it. October 13, 2002 was the first I remember . The whole show was severly slanted. The reporter is a bad one.
from another web site

:"Most outrageous were the lead-in statements by Steve Croft: "Why is it so hard to stop deranged gunmen from terrorizing American communities, like the sniper who has terrorized Maryland?" And, "Every year across the United States, nearly 1,000 homicides are committed by people with severe mental illness."
The initial statement has two flaws. First, it assumes that the Maryland sniper is "deranged," at a time when there is absolutely no evidence to that effect. The killer could equally as plausibly be a sociopath, or an El Queda terrorist, or simply an angry boy of the Columbine type. Secondly, it implies that such activity is going on almost routinely across America, when anyone who reads the newspapers knows it is not.
The second statement includes the infamous "1,000 homicides" statistic that originated in the fevered imagination of Dr. Fuller Torrey, and is unsupported by any scientific evidence.
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Then in the last 60 seconds of the investigation, they talk to another expert on mental illness, who informs the reporter that there is no lab test to detect any mental illness. Many people do in fact quietly recover from mental illness and once they recover, don't speak about it and would no longer be eligable to own a gun.
When ever I saw the repeat of the show, someone in the local CBS affiliate always accidentally cuts out the last minutes of the show.

http://www.cbsnews.com/
stories/2002/10/10/60minutes/main525146.shtml

Anthony Galioto would agree. In 1971, he was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital. At the time, he was hearing voices and hallucinating. He was diagnosed as a schizophrenic.

Eleven years after his hospitalization, Galioto, who was an avid hunter, sued the government to regain his right to buy a firearm. He got a letter from his doctor saying he'd been cured and took his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Before the court could rule on the case, Congress changed the law, allowing exemptions for people like Galioto to buy firearms if they can show that they are no longer a threat to themselves or others.

"Supposing you have heart attacks, and you drive a car," argues Galioto. "Should I take your driver's license away from you, because I'm afraid you might pass out and crash into people on the sidewalk?"

Dr. Howard Zonana, Yale professor of medicine and law and chairman of the American Psychiatric Association’s task force on the mentally ill and their access to guns, is torn between the rights of the mentally ill and the issue of public safety.

hot damn!

To my horror, not only was there a major piece last night on NBC Nightly News on bi-polar illness in children, tonight the local news here in Maine -- NBC in Bangor -- is doing an extended piece on it as well. A nod is given to critics, but Peter Breggin is the person who speaks for the negative. Can you hear my AIEEEEEEEEE?!!

I wonder who will be the reporter. Mike Wallace is known for being depressed. Personally I wish Andy Rooney could cover it.

I'd like to see attention focused on American gunmen terrorizing Afghanistan, Iraq...