[Sooth2222]

This traces its roots to Kennedy's Community Mental Health Act of 1963 (CMHA). Politicians and state governments like it, because it's obviously cheaper to have the mentally ill living on the street in cardboard boxes than to house them in mental institutions. Only a small fraction of mentally ill are institutionalized today compared to the years before the act.

As an aside, with the exception of the 1927 Bath School bombing, all of the school massacres in the United States have occurred since 1963.

[Norm Lenhart]

I don’t deny it. I’m just saying that cases like Williwbrook (which were worse than any horror story Hollywood could dream up) pulled on the public emotions (gee, what a coincidence to our current situation) and galvanized action. For all the wrong reasons and in the exact wrong direction.

MANY years ago as a young lad I worked in a state institution for a couple years and we got some of the people Willowbrook didn’t toss onto the street. Even in the remaining institutions the rules are insane and very ACLU driven.

Either way, this is going to be one incredible cluster FXXX before it’s over.