And mental illness can be proven by the irrational ravings of the mentally ill. And, of course, by the dead bodies left in their wake. Honestly, I would rather err on the side of caution than mop up the aftermath of a shooting like happened in California.
--------------------------------------- i think that rational or irrational are simply OPINIONS until laws are broken Hunarcy
Sorry that you think that way. You, and people who think like you, are the problem. Your ilk EMPTIED the asylums back in the 70's, turning thousands out and creating the homeless problem we have today, where the mentally ill are reduced to screaming at lamp posts instead of getting the help they needed. And, you insist on having the mentally ill live amongst us and shoot us because you seem unwilling to allow them to get the help they need.
Wrong...left wing social activists also pushed to clear out the mental hospitals.... mentally ill people apparently have the Right to be on the street without help..that is what they wanted, not us.
".....left wing social activists also pushed to clear out the mental hospitals."
Let me point out that it was a Democrat initiative.
It was Democrat JFK's plan
Carter continued it.
The plan was a failure....so Reagan turned it over to the states.
1963
President John F. Kennedy signs the
Community Mental Health Act to provide federal funding for the construction of community-based preventive care and treatment facilities. Between the Vietnam War and an economic crisis, the program was never adequately funded.
1980
President Jimmy Carter signs the
Mental Health Systems Act, which aims to restructure the community mental-health-center program and improve services for people with chronic mental illness.
1981
Under President Ronald Reagan, the
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act repeals Carter’s community health legislation and establishes block grants for the states, ending the federal government’s role in providing services to the mentally ill. Federal mental-health spending decreases by
30 percent.
TIMELINE: Deinstitutionalization And Its Consequences
Really interesting reason why it was important to Kennedy.