I agree.
This is purely a Trump idea. It’s fine that he’s using it but let’s not pretend he used his years of experience, thought this through, and came up with the idea.
And it is only going to get worse with the amount of weed people are smoking. It has been shown to contribute to Schizophrenia and do I have to even state the obvious, it is not a motivator to do any work of any kind.
There are two basic problems in the modern world.
1) Humans don’t spend enough time chasing and trying to kill something to eat.
2) Humans don’t spend enough time running from things that want to eat them.
We seem to understand what feeding the bears does to them but we seem to lack in self-awareness of what a world of free excess will do to humans.
That is a better position than having no position other than opposing gun control. At least Vivek is saying something both too many Dims and too many in the GOP leave out of the “gun violence” discussion
He’s talking about bringing back psychiatric care, which is needed; however, that will ultimately happen through a panel of unelected beauracrats who I guarantee you will all be ANTI-2nd amendment.
See where this goes?
It isn’t just a slippery slope.......it’s an ice covered cliff.
“We have a mental health epidemic.”
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Actually the root of the problem goes deeper than that. We have a cultural health epidemic. A spiritual health epidemic.
Unless and until America returns to its core values of decency and democracy, we will never make America great again.
And this is where Vivek, a Hindu, will never succeed. Even Trump, who did make America great, did not manage to keep it that way.
look to the pharmaceuticals and antidepressants for answers to the school shootings, if you dare.
He’s right, but this problem isn’t confined to guns. A LARGE percentage of the homeless also have mental health issues. It may be too big an elephant to swallow at once, but if they could work out a way to tackle both, I think society as a whole would be much better off.
my personal fave on guns...”A gun is only dangerous when the wrong nut is connected to the trigger” L.Star
No, we do not have a mental health problem. That is a cop out to give criminals an escape from justice. We have a discipline problem. It starts at a young age and continues into criminal adulthoods.
V needs to do some homework on the mental health profession these days.
His proposal is going from the frying pan into the fire.
The “professionals” will just get the perps addicted to new dangerous drugs....
Agree. I’ve heard mental health officials say that the younger generations a more mentally unstable than the older generations. Makes sense. Given the crap they’re made to believe.
There is a vast mental illness epidemic, but I suspect, if simple low-IQ is excluded, accounts for a very small percentage of assaults and murders using firearms.
Criminal gangs. Conflict over dope sales/territory. Robberies, Carjackings. Racial attacks. Fights over women. Drug zombies.
Which items in that short list are caused by “mental health problems”? Yet those categories generate most crime. Loons committing mass shootings are horrible, but account for a tiny percentage of victims.
It’s very hard to enjoy the freedoms we are entitled to when mental illness goes unchecked and untreated. If the government fails to control the mentally ill, then normal people will restrict their activities and give up freedoms to protect themselves and their families.
Indeed. The left insists on playing with fire by always trying to protect the mentally ill. All the gun laws in the world will not matter if you dont call a criminal a criminal or a psycho a psycho…..and treat them as such.
Mental health epidemic better start with the “gender” people.
NO IT’S NOT.
he’s an idiot raghead. Not worthy of the Office. And not just for that reason.
The “mental problems” are part of the commie playbook. Declare a person incompetent and lock them up.
The REAL PROBLEM IS CRIMINAL, GANG MEMBERS AND THE LACK OF BEING RAISED PROPERLY (as in teaching Right from Wrong by parents) !!!
Unfortunate when the attending enforcement agencies were unable to foil the known sociopathic violence.