woodguru wrote:
Anybody who murders anyone are animals, how about the right wing animal who went into a black church and murdered several good people? Should we persecute hard right wing nut jobs, root them out?
You are polarizing, can it Russian
Well that attack on those good people was beyond horrible. As you make clear, we have enough home grown crazy people and I see no need to import or allow the crazies from other nations to take up residence and influence our already crazy population. Let us root them all out and deal with the problem.... reopen institutions that were closed so these people can get individualized help or at least kept off the streets.
"A severe shortage of inpatient care for people with mental illness is amounting to a public health crisis, as the number of individuals struggling with a range of psychiatric problems continues to rise.
The revelation that the gunman in the Sutherland Springs, Texas, church shooting escaped from a psychiatric hospital in 2012 is renewing concerns about the state of mental health care in this country. A study published in the journal Psychiatric Services estimates 3.4 percent of Americans — more than 8 million people — suffer from serious psychological problems.
The disappearance of long-term-care facilities and psychiatric beds has escalated over the past decade, sparked by a trend toward deinstitutionalization of psychiatric patients in the 1950s and '60s, says Dominic Sisti, director of the Scattergood Program for Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health Care at the University of Pennsylvania.
"State hospitals began to realize that individuals who were there probably could do well in the community," he tells Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson. "It was well-intended, but what I believe happened over the past 50 years is that there's been such an evaporation of psychiatric therapeutic spaces that now we lack a sufficient number of psychiatric beds."
A 2012 report by the Treatment Advocacy Center, a nonprofit organization that works to remove treatment barriers for people with mental illness, found the number of psychiatric beds decreased by 14 percent from 2005 to 2010. That year, there were 50,509 state psychiatric beds, meaning there were only 14 beds available per 100,000 people."
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/567477160/how-the-loss-of-u-s-psychiatric-hospitals-led-to-a-mental-health-crisisSo, the solution is two fold, fix our broken immigration laws and enforce them along with a more concerted effort to lovingly treat our own US citizen with mental health problems.