This all began with the Community Mental Health Act of 1963, and the resulting deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. The mental illness advocates will say that the vast majority of mentally ill individuals are harmless and at most a risk to themselves. And that's true. Maybe one in a million crazy people is crazy enough and capable enough for a mass shooting. But that one in a million is enough.
Medical treatment of mental illness is much more effective in 2018 than it was in 1963. Unfortunately, we can't force treatment and the vast majority of mental hospital beds are no more.
I disagree—they should be like 19th century madhouses. Those madhouses seem to have done a pretty good job. I guess Hollywood movies get people weirded out about them. But you can't argue with success. That was a far saner world than the present.
“Medical treatment of mental illness is much more effective in 2018 than it was in 1963. “
False. What utter crapola. And the families are left struggling trying to deal with it by themselves.