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madville

(7,847 posts) Mon Feb 19, 2018, 03:49 PM Feb 2018

Why don't we have state run psychiatric hospitals anymore to lock these potential shooters up in? [View all]

This latest shooter had so many warning signs and people seeing them that he easily should have been committed for some length of time but the States don't have the resources or facilities anymore to secure and evaluate these individuals.

Then that takes care of being able to legally buy a firearm, one of the questions asks if you have ever been involuntarily committed for mental health reasons, now they can't buy firearms if they are ever released.

Decades ago these crazy bastards would have been committed and medicated. Now they are just allowed to roam free and put all the rest of us in danger.

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Why don't we have state run psychiatric hospitals anymore to lock these potential shooters up in? [View all] madville Feb 2018 OP

It is nearly impossible to get someone care who is over 18 without their consent. redstatebluegirl Feb 2018 #1

Not in Florida A HERETIC I AM Feb 2018 #7

It is in Illinois. redstatebluegirl Feb 2018 #9

The criteria of Baker, as it has to be, is very strict. NutmegYankee Feb 2018 #18

Does that qualify as "nearly impossible"? A HERETIC I AM Feb 2018 #20

Depends on the symptoms. NutmegYankee Feb 2018 #23

What should the person have been committed for? NCTraveler Feb 2018 #2

Displaying a potential for mass violence maybe? madville Feb 2018 #13

Yeah, I'm not on board for that. NCTraveler Feb 2018 #16

Marvelous hindsight you got there. Voltaire2 Feb 2018 #31

A lot of them were terrible hellholes that warehoused people without treating them. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #3

How many of us rememeber when that happened. Wellstone ruled Feb 2018 #22

We can blame Reagan n/t GP6971 Feb 2018 #4

One word: Willowbrook Cattledog Feb 2018 #5

Exactly loyalsister Feb 2018 #28

Because TwistOneUp Feb 2018 #6

When closing the hospitals was first proposed marylandblue Feb 2018 #8

They will lock you up till your insurance won't cover you MattP Feb 2018 #10

you can blame Ronald Reagan for that vlyons Feb 2018 #11

Indeed. Reagan used psychiatrists who advocated a community services model in California mnhtnbb Feb 2018 #19

It takes a lot to get someone committed ismnotwasm Feb 2018 #12

America is a very cruel place if one falls off the tracks. Many of the hospitals were cruel pits. RKP5637 Feb 2018 #14

Ronald Reagan shut 'em all down and threw the mentally ill on the streets hlthe2b Feb 2018 #15

You cant lock ppl up for warning signs Nevernose Feb 2018 #17

That's the popular firearm at the moment madville Feb 2018 #26

What "warning sign" would you have "committed" him for? WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2018 #21

Posting that he wants to be a madville Feb 2018 #24

According to a friend who's married to a Psychiatrist, Turbineguy Feb 2018 #25

Why? We have Guantanamo! WhiteTara Feb 2018 #27

In this case, as in so many others, domestic violence was the tipoff marylandblue Feb 2018 #29

In answer to the OP question, two words: Saint Ronald Stinky The Clown Feb 2018 #30