What Can We Do About the Mental – Health Component?

10/23/19
 
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from America’s 1st Freedom,
10/18/19:

When two mass murders struck in early August, taking at least 31 lives, many in the mainstream blamed guns and your freedom for the carnage, not “mentally ill monsters’, as President Donald J. Trump called them.

The notion that mental illness shouldn’t even be discussed as part of a remedy has been pushed by people such as former Rep. Tony Coelho (D-Ca). In his opinion piece in The Hill in August, Coelho wrote, “whether based on ignorance, discrimination or hate, the belief that ending gun violence can occur by targeting people with mental illness is wrong and counterproductive red herring.

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