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Friday, April 20, 2018

How Better Treatment of the Mentally Ill Could Reduce Mass Shootings

After a 19-year-old with a rifle killed 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, President Donald Trump lamented how mental illness could have been a contributing factor in that massacre and many others.
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Trump hit on an uncomfortable topic that the media, focused as usual on gun control, has given little coverage in the wake of the Feb. 14 shooting in Parkland, Florida.

America doesn’t have a gun problem. It’s enduring a crisis of inappropriately treated mental illness that began decades ago but has worsened in recent years.

The Daily Signal spoke about this growing problem with John Snook, executive director of the Treatment Advocacy Center, a nonprofit organization in Arlington, Virginia, dedicated to coming up with better solutions to treat mental illness.

Snook said officials planted the seeds of the mental health crisis in the 1970s, when they focused on deinstitutionalizing the mentally ill.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

How about reining in the Dept of Homeland Security and its intelligence apparatus?
They are creating the fake terror events.
CIA is exposing them but the American Public is too brain dead to see what is happening in front of their faces.