Gallup: 83% Blame 'Failure of Mental
Health System' for Contributing
to Mass Shootings
Cybercast News,
by
Michael W. Chapman
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
9/13/2019 6:29:35 AM
Despite calls for more gun control laws in the wake of mass shootings, a new survey shows that the number one factor cited by Americans as contributing to mass shootings is the "failure of the mental health system to identify individuals who are a danger to others," reported Gallup.
Eighty-three percent of adults see that as the factor contributing "a great deal" and "a fair amount" to the problem.
"Easy access to guns" was cited by 48% of American adults as contributing "a great deal" to mass shootings and another 21% saw it as contributing "a fair amount" to the problem.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 9/13/2019 7:26:57 AM (No. 178592)
Our mental health care system is failing, but creating socialist funding for it is not the answer. A systemic overhaul is required, one that includes longer hospital stays for the violent and/or dangerous. As it is now, a dangerous individual may be committed, but only long enough to pump him full of drugs to "stabilize" him. No mandatory follow through after discharge is required. This is not keeping their families and the general public safe. And the families of some of these shooters and murderers have indeed tried to get help from the mental health care system.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 9/13/2019 8:23:08 AM (No. 178640)
It is a FACT that psychiatrists are in short supply; one , a friend of mine, is well into his 70's and still working, because he states his patients will have a difficult time finding someone to take his place. Sad.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
anniebc 9/13/2019 8:23:22 AM (No. 178643)
Count me in. And, you can place the blame for it squarely on the shoulders of Murder Inc. leftists. They scream about guns so no one notices that it's their religion (lack of religion or satanist), policies, and cultural influence that has created mass shootings, inner city crime, soaring abortion rates, selfishness, snowflakery, etc.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 9/13/2019 9:20:37 AM (No. 178706)
For the first time in a long while, I agree with a Gallup poll. Every since the states began turning patients out into the street, the ability of people to receive the care they need has declined. The rise of psychotropic drugs was used to justify the neglect of the foundational causes of mental illness and depression. It has come to the point that a simple complaint to a doctor that you feel blue or depressed leads to the prescribing of drugs so powerful that the full effect of them over the longterm is still unknown. Add to that the various sleep aids that can lead people to have psychological breaks, and we find that oftentimes the cure is worse than the disease. Add to that the fact that the mentally ill are expected to self-medicate, and the recipe for homelessness, hopelessness, crime, and suicide skyrocket.
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A local talk show host (Phil Valentine) did a non-scientific analysis of mass shootings. It was non-scientific in that he didn't use statistical methods and account for other variables and such that sometimes confuse the issue.
He took the years after the court rulings that essentially started the trend of closing the psych hospitals and compared them to an equal number of years before that time. I can't remember the actual numbers, but he said that we now have as many mass shootings per year as we used to have per decade before the asylums were closed down.
Is that a true cause? You can't say just by looking at numbers, but it certainly should be investigated. Couple that with all the new drugs that young people are plied with (pharmaceuticals, not street drugs) for ADD and depression and what have you, and there should definitely be some common links somewhere.
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The "mental health care system" is nothing more than drug dispensers to voluntary patients.
There is no way to lock up a mentally deranged dangerous person until they commit a serious crime.
And even then they must get caught, and then our justice system has to actually function to our benefit.
Our prisons are our mental health care system now. And when they get too full, they turn them back out for us to deal with again.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bighambone 9/13/2019 10:28:25 AM (No. 178769)
Right now a prospective firearms buyer could be an extreme “nut job” in the minds of people with who he has had life experiences, including law enforcement, and be dangerous to himself or others. But by lying on his or her firearms purchasers application form that is used as a basis for the federal background check, chances are, he or she would not now be detected during the federal background check as a potential mentally unstable “threat” who should not, by any measure, be in possession of firearms.
That is a huge problem that the Congress should address, as almost all of the shooters who have perpetrated mass shootings were “nut jobs” who were known to law enforcement as being unstable, but who were not included in any government database queried during the course of a background check, sometimes due to medical privacy laws.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
winnie1 9/13/2019 11:08:59 AM (No. 178816)
If Hipaa could release it's records on these young men who are mentally ill and are also a problem in school we would have a good idea where they are headed. This is the biggest RED flag, because they are young, many schools expunge their records. Remember a persons personality is set at the age of four yrs. old, there is no changing that..
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/13/2019 11:59:05 AM (No. 178857)
That's the base problem, there is no "Mental Health System" so the mentally-challenged walk among us. Most mental health organizations charge outrageous rates that most people can not afford so the bulk of the care goes to the bottom of society who are on the government dole. The "poor" do not have the exclusive on mental health issues so the troubled middle-class person goes untreated. Mental health "professionals" jealously guard their right to offer advice and counseling when most of us have the ability to listen to a person with problems and offer common sense advice (drop the drugs, get off alcohol, etc.) The profession of "Life Coaching" was created in an attempt to remediate this imbalance but the "credentialed" crowd immediately attempted to control that source too. Say what you like about formal training but most people I know in the official profession of mental health are not so well themselves. It's much easier to attempt to grab guns so that's the preferred "treatment." It's just like the police focusing on traffic violations because that's easier and usually safer than walking the streets and thwarting real criminals. When I was unfortunate enough to live in Chicago I was awarded quite a few questionable tickets while driving or simply parking but look at the real problems that they have that are ignored.
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