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These same people have their full rights, including the right to keep & bear arms, once they come to age.
There are so many mentally ill people on street corners in big cities begging to make a living.
All these people that are unemployable, are the SWJ warriors. They are the mentally ill.
I think that the doing away with the old mental health center structure was a major mistake. That said, in the past it was often far too easy to have someone committed, which was also a huge problem. Just because you're mentally ill, alone, should not mean that you should be locked up someone (and at taxpayers' expense at that). Indeed, there are plenty of mentally ill individuals who are functioning members of society (or who, at the very least, don't pose a physical threat to others). There needs to be the right balance in being able to have someone committed and I'm not sure we've reached it yet.
These same people have their full rights, including the right to keep & bear arms, once they come to age.
There are so many mentally ill people on street corners in big cities begging to make a living.
All these people that are unemployable, are the SWJ warriors. They are the mentally ill.
Plenty of the RWNJs who inhabit this forum might also qualify.
70,000,000 out of 320,000,000? Seems a bit many. 7 million sounds more reasonable.
That means out of 125,000,000 when I was a kid about 20 million would have been in mental wards but nowhere near that number ever were.
With everyone and their mother seemingly on some form of medication, I could believe the 70 million figure. Of course, this doesn't mean that most of the folks who fall into this category has serious or sidelining mental illnesses.
Since the majority of felons who vote are democrats, I'd like to see the statistics on how many Ds have mental illness.
I know Nancy Pelosi's cheese slipped off her cracker long ago.
And Maxine Waters.....oh boy.
I think that the doing away with the old mental health center structure was a major mistake.
Modern medicine has reduced the need for so many long-term psychiatric beds, but there always are going to be some people who need structure and supervision, and some of that is possible in community-based care.
Of course, that reduces the number of beds available for people who need intensive help - many hospitals no longer have psychiatric beds, and many psychiatric hospitals don't accept Medicaid. So if you're poor and mentally ill, you don't have many choices for recovery short of the few remaining state-run psych hospitals and overburdened clinics.
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