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How do you feel like "mental illness" argument holds up between AU and US? I think most people's fears are around unhinged homeless than random shooters.
by madamelic 7y ago
How do you feel like "mental illness" argument holds up between AU and US?
I think most people's fears are around unhinged homeless than random shooters.
- tomlockwood 7y agoI feel like if America has a mental illness problem, surely it would be addressed by providing more mental health services perhaps cough universally to the populace somehow. But, it's all rhetoric. If claims there was a mental illness problem were in good faith, we'd see American action on mental health.
- a3n 7y ago"Mental illness" is just a convenient way to dismiss any notion of doing anything about gun violence. It's misdirection. Because, as you point out, we're not going to actually do anything about mental illness. Indeed, half the Congress and all of the Administration is trying to reduce access to health care, which would include mental health care.