So very true.  And if the mental health providers and others had not enabled her and let her have a gun, Chris would still be with us.   Since when does Pearl Buck treat schizophrenia?  That is who claimed to be treating her.  Lack of competence in the treatment providers, who brought her here from Portland under the guise of treatment, and lack of any supervision or consequences.  Exactly what could have happened here.  This is why we need to fix the system.  Ronald Reagan let them out and no one has fixed it.  Even though many of us have tried.  There are those out there that say, "They must be free." Even at the mentally ill person's expense (physically and mentally).  The system is more insane than the clients. Oh, we aren't even allowed to call them clients, they are, "individuals" in Oregon.  Oregon has the  most innane system in the country. She should have been institutionalized in Portland but they intervened.  Kristie's suit over that was never in the papers.