One year ago Thursday, the horrific school shooting in Parkland, Florida, sparked an intense national debate over firearm-related violence.
As some pushed for broader restrictions on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens, The Heritage Foundation has undertaken the task of evaluating the complex, underlying realities of gun violence, including its relationship to untreated serious mental illness.
As part of a series of papers exploring this relationship, John Malcolm and I authored a Heritage legal memo, “The Consequences of Deinstitutionalizing the Severely Mentally Ill,” focusing on the mental health crisis in the United States and how states can combat that crisis to make communities safer.
Our paper begins by exploring several catalysts for the mass removal of the seriously mentally ill from inpatient facilities during the 1960s and 1970s, a process referred to as deinstitutionalization.
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A lot more people would be alive today if more inpatient facilities were available, both the mentally ill and those who became their victims. Outpatient treatment is okay for some, but it's a crapshoot, with too much non-compliance, not enough one-on-one with caregivers, and a poor social and follow-up structure to help those afflicted get through the tough times and guide them to better ones.
I know closing down the nut houses put many of those sick crazy people out in the streets, many of them ended up getting jobs though in Congress, Senate, and as Federal Judges.
We need to go back to locking the crazys up because I'm sick of having to listen to them. You can find them outside of the S turn Wawa any time of the day or night.
Turning out the crazy people made them into Liberal Democrats!
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