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Originally Posted by jbrown132
Everyone of these individuals is mentally ill. The mental health system in this country is broken and until it gets fixed this will continue. We have a grandson who for several years was in and out of hospitals. He would tell his mother he was hearing voices that were telling him to do bad things. She would him to the hospital, they would keep him for a day, release him and essentially the treatment was go home, take two aspirin and call me in the morning. This went on for two years. Finally, he woke up one night and got his mother and father up and said the voices in his head were terrible and they were telling him to go out and hurt people. They took him to the fourth hospital they had tried where he was admitted. After two days they were going to release him until his father said if they did he was going to call everyone news outlet he could find and tell them the hospital was going to release their son who was threatening to kill himself and other people. The hospital keep him and after a month of intense discussions with psychiatrists and drug treatment he was finally diagnosed with schizophrenia and has been doing well for several years now. The real problem is most hospitals are no longer staffed or capable of handling mentally ill patients. They may have a small psychiatric unit and that’s it. They need to start building more psychiatric hospitals that treat these types of individuals where they are taken seriously when they are seeking help. In this case our grandson had two loving parents who would not give up. In the case in Texas, and most others this was not the case and there were red flags all over the place that were ignored by the parents and police. Until they fix this system that is broken this unfortunately will continue.
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I agree with your post, but it is very simple to see WHY this is the status quo.......TAXES namely HIGHER taxes would be needed to put a dent into crime and violence through mental health solutions and improvements. Currently, people are willing to accept social violence rather than pay higher TAXES. If the US were a better society with greater GNP and lesser GREED, then likely, improved health care WOULD decrease violence.
I believe that the least expensive, while still, somewhat effective solution is to study and augment some of the Australian SOLUTION. Nothing is perfect and some 2nd amendment purists and NRA believers would be extremely unhappy, but their children and grandchildren could, at least, go to school without fearing for their lives. A lot of what happens in the future depends on the public sentiment of RAGE if these mass murder events keep happening at this constantly increasing pace. If and when it happens to someone in YOUR family then it would become personal and NOT academic!
It also could (?) be also possible that with society stabilizing somewhat from the secondary psychological trauma from the Pandemic and that in about 5 years the number of mass-murder events returns to normal and hopefully an acceptable level.