[Jim from C-Town]

Trump has also said we don't have a gun problem we have a lack of adequate mental health facilities to care for and help those with serious mental illness.

[Paleo Pete]

I have to disagree with Trump for once.

We’ve had guns and mentally unstable people in this country for over 200 years. Only in the past 50 years or so have these mass or “spree” shootings been common.

I think it’s more a morals problem. Put mentally unstable together with no morals then you’re getting somewhere. Mentally unstable has been with us since people believed the world was flat. Only recently has it become demonstrably associated with mass shootings. Mental instability probably plays a part, but before the country went morally bankrupt this type of event was very uncommon.

[Cold Heat]

Trump has also said we don't have a gun problem we have a lack of adequate mental health facilities to care for and help those with serious mental illness.

So true...been talked about at least a thousand times but nothing is ever proposed, much less done about it.

The plain facts are that we have always had this issue. Back in the early 60s when I was growing up, we used to hospitalize them...(with hospital being a far too generous term) but I think it was closer to warehousing them. I saw the inside of some of these facilities...gave me nightmares for months.

This is why, due to public outcry over these old crappy facilities, that we released them onto the streets.

The original fix was wrong, the reaction to the failure was wrong, and now we are were we are.