[McGruff]

Trump said. "I'm a very much 2nd Amendment person

There goes some more.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Start by supporting Rep. Tim Murphy’s (R-PA) HB 2646, which would, among other things, tear down the wall of HIPAA that prevents therapists and doctors who are treating the mentally ill from discussing the case with their families.

The mentally ill are with their therapist 1, maybe 2 hours a week. The other 166 their family is responsible for looking out for them, and thanks to HIPAA they are generally flying blind.

Because the patient won’t sign a release. Because....here’s a news flash.....THEY’RE CRAZY!

Anyone who has ever had a family member with these issues understands what I am saying. It’s a perfect example of Congress, which doesn’t know jack about anything, deciding that they are experts in everything and then passing laws.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

To put Trump’s idea into common practice, while avoiding the pitfalls typically found in government mental health care, we need to take sage advice from the founding fathers.

That is, mental health care needs a balance of powers.

The way to get this is with multi-state regional mental health care facilities. States pay a fee to support it, plus a cost per patient fee. This avoids the problem of one state dumping patients in there.

Next, patients must be voted in and voted out. All the states involved must agree that a patient needs institutionalization to admit them. And if they are in good enough condition to be released, all states involved must agree on their return to their home state.

At the state level, doctors and courts must decide if they are so mentally ill that they need to be put in an “insane asylum”. And if released, they must use the process in the other direction to determine their disposition.

No time will a state or its doctors unilaterally decide the fate of any incarcerated patient.

[TigersEye]

No one who knew this guy was willing to take it to a court and have him legally adjudicated mentally incompetent so there was no legal or rational cause for him to be flagged by NICs.

Sorry, but that's how it is. Those who knew him didn't feel strongly enough to do something so who is to blame?

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

The sheer cognitive dissonance created by living in denial of God probably causes most of the mental illness in the world. The solution, therefore, is to eliminate liberalism.