Proof the mental hospitals closed in the 1970s need to be reopened. When closed and the crazies dumped on the streets, mass killings took off like a rocket.
In the 1960s almost every mass shooter released since the 1970s since the would have been in a mental hospital for observation long before the went on a killing spree.
Most of them are rubble or uninhabitable, crumbling structures.
All because of one stupid book and one stupid movie.
“”””Proof the mental hospitals closed in the 1970s need to be reopened.””””
Officially that process was started in 1963, the last bill that JFK signed before his death, he wanted to remove them from the states and federalize mental health.
“The CMHC legislation was a major departure from existing federal and state responsibilities. For 150 years, the care of mentally ill persons had been vested in the states; a few states, such as Iowa and Wisconsin, passed the responsibility on to the counties.
In 1963, federal funds contributed approximately 2 percent of the costs of services for mentally ill persons; today federal funds contribute over 75 percent of those costs.
The saddest part of JFK’s legacy is that we now have much better treatment and rehabilitation programs than we had in 1963, but they are unused for the majority of the sickest individuals. Reversing JFK’s shift toward federalization and holding states accountable is, ironically, our best hope for fulfilling his original dream.”
Reagan did that in CA in the 1970s.