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It's too late. You're so locked in by your constitution that the constitutional rights of potential psycho killers can't be violated. It's as if your history carried a poison pill that's just now kicking in.
Believe it or not, we've already got much of that and more in place and have for decades with Child Find, special education and 504-financed evaluations, and EPSDT.
What we need more of is follow through and catching youth throughout the aging process, putting pressure on private insurance providers, and probably aiding primary care physicians in doing so.
Well, if youre talking about service provision beyond that of screening, this might help.I've heard of similar programs, anyhow.
Obviously they failed in this pretty glaring case, so I'm looking for whatever resources\empowerment it would take to make it effective.
Mass shootings: Solution(s)
Is there just ONE thing that needs to be done to end (severely lessen, tbh) mass shootings, or is it a matter of fixing several things for a complete solution?
Leaving the question open and not naming any possibilities, although you are certainly free to mention them if you like.
Take real steps to combat bullying in schools and social media.
Free mental health services for anyone who needs it.
Better security in schools. (not armed teachers). Guards, door hardware.
Parents taking more time with their children.
Not sure how to actually achieve these things.
4. Address our inadequate mental health infrastructure and failure to institutionalize dangerously ill people. We gutted our mental hospitals and system in the 80s, clearly that was a mistake.
While there are gaps at the higher levels of care, and it is unquestionable, by far *the* biggest gap is in basic community-based mental health care.
Prior to the 1980s we put all of our eggs into the institutional placements and they were god awful in how they treated these patients. Very few people in the consumer movement clamor for the days of insane asylums of yore.
However, when deinstituionalization came, states did not fund or prioritize community services. They were tremendously cheaper than the sheer millions they were pumping year after year into the aslyums and were going to produce far better outcomes, but most legislators didn't give a damn.
All throughout the 1980s, if they didn't "dump" people on the streets with no access to community services, they did what my state did, which was merely to move people from the institutions into nursing homes. And you know what, my state actually patted themselves on the back for that.
Here's how we should be looking at mental health services, but we often don't. https://www.samhsa.gov/prevention
The President doesn't look at it this way and that's a God damned shame.
In the pursuit of stopping incredibly rare mass violence, Americans risk turning back the clock on 20% of the American population by going after locking up 4-10% of the American population--the overwhelming majority of whom should not be in institutional placement.
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I'd have to disagree somewhat. When I was in LE, we had a lot of people in jail who should have been in an institution. In some cases the family had been trying to have them committed for years, but there were no beds... so it went on until they did something that brought them in conflict with the law.
Normally I keep full quotes and highlight in red, but you have too much text in both posts, so I'm going to condense.Attacking the Vulnerability:
-All schools should have security doors in corridors and common spaces which can be remotely looked and unlocked to compartmentalise the school and limit the movement of mass shooters within the school. Compartments must have emergency exits out of the school in the event of fires.
It has everything to do with being locked in. Other western countries also have widespread gun ownership but they don't have the same problem and when anyone tries to do anything it hits the same wall.
Normally I keep full quotes and highlight in red, but you have too much text in both posts, so I'm going to condense.
Anyway, that's quite the list you have there. This one point jumped out at me though. If I understand this scenario correctly...
1) Some students and teachers could be LOCKED IN with the shooters, and
2) If the students and teachers can escape, so can the shooters.
Which Western countries have "widespread gun ownership"?
Mass shootings: Solution(s)
Is there just ONE thing that needs to be done to end (severely lessen, tbh) mass shootings, or is it a matter of fixing several things for a complete solution?
Leaving the question open and not naming any possibilities, although you are certainly free to mention them if you like.
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