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Gun Control: A Misguided Focus on Mental Illness

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calochortus12/18/2012 6:57:49 pm PST

re: #9 Amory Blaine

Also “mental health” will be used like a bludgeon. Not to usher people to better care, but somehow penalize and punish mental illness.

Or at least just sweep the mentally ill ‘under the rug’, so to speak. I’ve heard a lot on right wing sites about how everything was great until the bleeding heart liberals started worrying about the rights of mental patients and then they all got turned loose on an unsuspecting society. There were abuses and neglect as well as people who weren’t mentally ill, but were, in effect, incarcerated because of a wrong diagnosis.