Trump wants to bring back mental institutions to address mass shootings

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

President Trump says he wants to reopen mental institutions as a way to address mass shootings, an idea he pushed twice Thursday and has floated before.

The president's insistence that mental illness is the cause of mass shootings has disconcerted mental health professionals who insist that most people with mental illness are nonviolent. These experts also say people afflicted with mental illness are more likely to be the victims of violent crime than the perpetrator, and fear the president's language only further stigmatizes those struggling with mental health issues.

"I do want people to remember the words 'mental illness,'" the president told reporters on his way to a rally in New Hampshire Thursday afternoon, responding to a question about gun control.

"These people are mentally ill and nobody talks about that. But these are mentally ill people, and people have to start thinking about it. I think we have to start building institutions again because, you know, if you look at the '60s and '70s, so many of these institutions were closed...But a lot of our conversation has to do with the fact that we have to open up institutions. We can't let these people be on the streets."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-wants-to-bring-back-mental-institutions-to-address-mass-shootings/

[bigbrother05]

1. How else is he going to funnel money to the private prisons?

Think he gets kickbacks from Kelly?

[Ilsa]

2. I'm not going to argue with him on this.

Lots of people got turned out of institutions that had no place to go, and they became homeless. Not everyone who is mentally ill has a family to live with or one that can handle taking them in. There are others in prison who should be institutionalized.

[hlthe2b]

3. If he weren't using it to blame mass shootings on the mentally ill, I could get behind this idea too

[Ilsa]

4. I agree, but if by mistake, we end up

Helping the mentally ill, I'll take it.

[Mr.Bill]

16. Just don't forget

that many republicans think liberalism is a mental illness.

[Ilsa]

34. It's not per DSM-V, so it isn't

as if they can incarcerate liberals for being liberal.

[oldsoftie]

20. Yes, remember those days. SO many were tossed out.

And yes, many who ended up on the street DID become violent

[Haggis for Breakfast]

23. One of the first things Ronald Reagan did as president

was cripple the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) and begin the process of defunding mental health clinics and services all across this nation. The result was mentally-ill patients with no services, no care and no homes.

It was the GOP who put these poor souls on the street. Now, trumpie wants to help them ? I'd laugh if it wasn't so sad.

[JonLP24]

42. A mental illness homeless person is far more likely to be a victim

[Sucha NastyWoman]

32. I Have always believed this

Might be the first good Idea of his entire presidency.

But it won’t be a substitute for some good gun laws

[oldsoftie]

35. His support of red flag laws have pissed off some of the rabid gunners.

I've seen the FB posts already.
I really hope he sticks to it & pushes for them. And since he's so arrogant, when asked about going aganst the NRA, he says "I'M the president"

[ToxMarz]

5. How about if they bring back mental institutions to address the need for

that type of medical care, and bring about gun control legislation to address that problem (either within the mentally ill population or not), WIN WIN!

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Wonder how all his white nationalist supporters feel about being

called mentally ill.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. All MAGAts in solitary?

Is that what he's saying?

[FarPoint]

8. He just loves..

Locking any and everyone up! It must be a sadistic fetish.

[The Mouth]

17. Nah

It's just 'bidness'. Lots of profit to be made

[kimbutgar]

9. St Ronnie closed all these intuitions in California and as president finished them off nationwide

Interesting that the god of the repuke party is now having his policy destroyed by the clown of the repuke party. And a man who needs to be put into an institution himself.

[BigmanPigman]

31. My mother is still pissed off over this.

She worked in a hospital and says this was a really dumb move (another really dumb move) by Reagun.

[RKP5637]

10. May tRump be first in line for mental health help. n/t

[ashredux]

11. A good place for protesters

[KY_EnviroGuy]

12. We need a huge one to put the whole damn GOP in.

After, their psycho behavior for many, many years is the root cause of most of our problems.....

[htuttle]

13. Old Soviet strategy

Declare your opponents mentally ill, then send them to the gulag.

[crazytown]

36. + 1000

[Turbineguy]

14. It might be better for him

than jail.

Being in an asylum has less stigma than being in the penitentiary.

[Journeyman]

15. Ah, yes! "The Fletcher Memorial Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings" . . .

It's the perfect place for all those mentally ill politicians and dingbats who believe the implements of death should preclude everyone's right to life.

[Sudsy]

18. The Great Prevaricator

should be careful what he wishes for.

[Vinca]

19. We should bring them back to hold Trump and his cult.

[ancianita]

21. No, dopey donnie, you can't make up history.

"...we have to start building institutions again because, you know, if you look at the '60s and '70s, so many of these institutions were closed..."

It was saint ronnie who closed those institutions. In the 80's.

[IronLionZion]

22. He should check himself into one, and see if it helps.

[keithbvadu2]

24. Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses

Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-signs-bill-revoking-obama-era-gun-checks-people-mental-n727221


https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017549611 illness toon

Trump says mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton are a ‘mental illness problem’

Aug 4 2019

Trump signs bill reversing Obama rule to ban gun purchases by mentally ill

Feb. 28, 2017 | Updated 4:19 p.m. ET March 9, 2017

[keithbvadu2]

26. Trump's idea of improving background checks.

Trump's idea of improving background checks.
.

[Paladin]

25. Same gun apologist story, 1000th chapter.

AFTER somebody becomes seriously mentally debilitated, and AFTER said person easily acquires an assault rifle, along with a few thousand rounds of ammo (crammed into X number of 100-round capacity magazines), and AFTER said person goes to a church/store/office/hospital/theater/school and turns said place into a slaughterhouse, and AFTER said person is apprehended and then stands trial, well THEN let's put that person in a mental institution.


Same shit, different day.

[sheshe2]

27. Only if he is the first one admitted. nt

[Buckeye_Democrat]

28. Name the first one "The Stable Genius Mental Asylum", please.

[TexasBushwhacker]

29. As far as I know few mass shooters were diagnosed with a mental illness

I don't believe racism is listed in the DSM V.

[JonLP24]

43. Only 5% of gun violence is attributed to someone with SMI

Not sure how that correlates to mass shootings but you're right though mass shooters like Dylan Roof are motivated by hate. Mental illness is just a scapegoat for bad gun laws.

Domestic violence is a bigger red flag.

[randr]

30. One more bone for the media to chase

[Luca.Brasi]

33. Mental Institutions vs Prisons vs Living on the street

I'm an older guy whose mother spent time in a mental institution in the 70s when I was a boy.

I remember what they were like from visiting her. They were abysmal, filthy and frightening.

These days the mentally ill end up in prison or homeless on the street.

Both prison and homelessness are an abysmal, filthy and frightening existence. I think we all know that it's time to get serious about pushing back against mass incarceration. We also know that a nation as rich as ours has no excuse for letting people live on the street.

I guess what I am saying is that I have compassion for the mentally ill, but there seems to be no way to give these poor souls a decent, humane life. If there is a solution, we sure haven't found it in this country.

[truthisfreedom]

37. How else are republicans going to lock up their political enemies?

[agalisgv]

38. He should be their first long term patient

[Mc Mike]

39. The US taxpayers have the money for THAT.

Spend with no consequences, the sky's the limit in terms of racking up debt for anything the repugs want.

Don't ask them for snap benefits for starving US kids, though. Or veterans' care, or infrastructure. They're 'taxed enough already'.

[Oneironaut]

40. Most of the shooters would not actually be in mental institutions until they committed the shootings

It's not like being mentally ill suddenly turns you the color blue or something. Many seemed sane enough to the outside world, and did not think they needed help.

Also, I would not qualify institutions as an example of "giving help." It's another way of shoveling people no one wants to deal with into a dark corner and turning out the lights.

[El Mimbreno]

41. trump is right

HIS mental illness is one of the causes of these shootings. It's contagious.

[jmowreader]

44. He's right, in a way

The stochastic terrorist currently squatting in the White House meets the criteria for 301.7 Antisocial Personality Disorder, and he's driving all these domestic terrorist incidents. The sooner we lock this asshole up in an Institution for the Criminally Insane, the better off we will be.