re: #136 Targetpractice

in which case, we most definitely need as a society to get over our hang-up about committing people who visibly need help but won’t seek it out. Really, in some ways it comes down to which right we think less inviolate: Self-determination where it concerns our health or our right to haul around a small arsenal.

Charles and I discussed this several years ago. In the Reagan years the GOP thought it was too expensive to have quality mental care in California.
Napa Had a huge mental hospital that literally emptied on the streets.
It was a huge scandal. The homeless issue in parks and people wandering the Streets of scenic Napa begging for money and buying drugs and booze.
The GOP saved money by cutting money to the most needed citizens among us.