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Shooting at Nashville movie theater

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by TigerVols, Aug 5, 2015.

  1. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Now don't you go blaming Ronald Reagan for slashing funding for mental health and putting all these people out on the streets.
     
  2. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    “Stop The Violence” Message Pervades African American Day Parade | News One
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    And a link I'm trying to get to show up as just a link and not a video.
     
  3. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Oh, and FWIW, it seems that a whole lot of those shooters are law-abiding Americans who legally purchased their guns.

    I guess everyone is a normal, law-abiding American until they start shooting up schools and movie theaters.
     
  4. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Letting the mentally ill roam our streets was viewed as a "civil right" by 1960's liberals, who sent them out to fend for themselves:

    Until the late 19th century, mentally ill people were locked in prisons or left to wander the streets. Reformers, seeking a more humane response, created a vast system of state-run psychiatric hospitals. By the 1960s, however, the overcrowded, often disturbing conditions in those facilities had come to light. At the same time, new psychiatric medicines were being developed, all of which gave rise to a new reform effort. Deinstitutionalization, the systematic closure of state psychiatric hospitals, was codified by the Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 and supported by patients’ rights laws secured state by state. Chief among those laws were strict new standards: only people who posed an imminent danger to themselves or someone else could be committed to a psychiatric hospital or treated against their will. By treating the rest in the least-restrictive settings possible, the thinking went, we would protect the civil liberties of the mentally ill and hasten their recoveries. Surely community life was better for mental health than a cold, unfeeling institution.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/m...tually-lost-his-mind.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

    When Giuliani tried to get the mentally ill of the streets of New York City in the 1990's, he was attached by "homeless advocates" who defended the right of folks who chose to live on the streets.
     
  5. Doom and gloom

    Doom and gloom Active Member

    Mental health is an industry that feeds upon itself, seeking to keep the client coming back. Because if the clients issues are solved, then you lose mental health workers.

    Some agencies have assessment people who go in to conduct programs in schools and seek to find "clients"....paying commissions for each client obtained. Insurance companies saw this and began to cut what they would pay for such care.
    When you mix commissions with mental health care, something is wrong with the system's objectives.
     
  6. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Yeah, but weren't the mentally ill housed in Arkham Asylum then?
     
  7. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Who are you arguing with?

    This is the tradeoff we've made.

    I accept it.
     
  8. Doom and gloom

    Doom and gloom Active Member

    I don't see that overall here. I think it's about confiscating all guns.
     
  9. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    People still go to Hickory Hollow Mall?
     
  10. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    Based on what?
     
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