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Originally Posted by Maestro
First I am not advocating that people with mental illness be locked away, however, this issue predated Obama. We can not pin this issue on him or anyone in recent history except for the fact no one want to address the issue even when we had a number of mentally disturb individual take lots of people lives.
If you go back 50 yrs people which these kind of problems where Dr's could not agree on whether the person would hurt themselves or other, were put into mental hospitals, those facility for lots of reason have been shut down, and we have group of people in this country who think it is bad to have these people under permanent care, they feel it is better that the mentally ill walk among us and have free access to the same things everyone else has even though no one can say they can handle the responsibilities.
The government has dump these people back on society and their families who either do not want to deal with them or are unable to deal with them.
I believe we will continue to see these things happen (current case still unknown if he was crazy) as long as we have people with mental illness issues no getting permanent help.
One other related point, the people running around with the anti-gun agenda has drive the manufacturing and sales of these weapons to the all time highs, in the last year with the current atmosphere, gun production and sales are down 60% why people are not concern about their rights being taken away. The anti-gun folks have made the entire situation worse making it even easy for people to get guns since there are so many available.
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Closure of mental health institutions is not just an American problem, they have been closing them down here in the UK for many years with the buildings & land being sold off to developers for housing.
We now have so called 'care in the community'
