That’s only partially the issue.
Since the 1960s-1970s “Main Streaming” mental health patients has been the practice rather then institutionalization. The claim being all these “problems” can be controlled with psychotropic drugs and putting them out to rub up against society will also be therapeutic, help make them better (By magic I guess!). Unfortunately if there’s no one to make them take the drugs, quite often they don’t get taken. Guess what? At the age of majority no one can make you take them! I question whether they were so effective to significantly reduce or do away with mental asylums anyway. (But it does save the state money & isn’t that’s what’s really important!) Throw in the fact that the drug culture is main stream now, playing dice with your personal brain chemistry is just the thing for a boring evening ! So its quite a stew now where no past public actions by the state or the people should be considered so it has to be a conspiracy! The wilder the better!
I vote aliens!
“So its quite a stew now where no past public actions by the state or the people should be considered so it has to be a conspiracy! The wilder the better!”
The problem with dismissing “conspiracy theories” as a priori ridiculous is that people do conspire. Frequently. Almost continuously.
I don’t disagree with you on “mainstreaming.” I view it as hideously evil. But I have to wonder why there are so many school shootings. Given the nature of mental illness, I would guess that there would be many different targets, and less repetition.