re: Mass casualty shooting in Minneapolis at a church school 20 victims

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We need to bring back mental asylums again. These liberals did away with it because they didn't like people being labeled as "crazy".

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Ronald Reagan was a Liberal?

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Reagan did not close asylums as President. If anything by reversing Carter’s bill along with many Dems asylums and large institutions could still get funding instead of it going to community based programs. They just continued a trend of closing.

Reagan and Dems including the Dem controlled house cut a program that had barely started as it was signed a month before the election and was not granted any raise in revenue by Carter or the Dems (sponsored by Teddy Kennedy) to even be fully implemented in the first place. That was the next President’s and Congress’s problem. Carter’s bill wanted to close the large mental institutions and hand out grants directly to smaller community based programs like money was printed on trees.

By reversing all of Carter’s election gamble but one section laws basically went back to status quo including what could receive federal funding and funding ended up being cut by 1/3 only which the states never made up. The states’ closing of institutions just continued as they had been doing since the 60s including with fame of the book and then the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and then later was de facto enforced due judicial decisions limiting ability to keep anyone in them which has become the bigger issue for the mentally ill homeless.

As far as closing of larger institutions.

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The Community Mental Health Act was the last legislation Kennedy signed into law before his murder in Dallas. The act accelerated a process called “deinstitutionalization”—a national shift in mental-health treatment from state hospitals to community-based facilities. Between 1955 and 1998, the populations in state and county mental hospitals dropped from approximately 558,000 to fewer than 60,000.

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Reagan wanted to reduce federal spending and give more control to the states, but the “States proved more enthusiastic about emptying the old facilities than about providing new ones. Many patients went from straitjackets to steam grates.”

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Other legislation contributed to the process. When Congress created Medicaid in 1965, it barred payments for people in “institutions of mental diseases” but allowed payments for community mental health centers. In the last year of his presidency, Jimmy Carter signed the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980, which provided grants directly to community mental health centers. The boost in funding was short-lived. In one of the first speeches of his presidency, Ronald Reagan complained that, through federal mandates, “a federal helping hand is quickly turning into a federal mailed fist.” His administration repealed the Mental Health Systems Act within its first year, converted direct funding into block grants for the states, and cut federal mental-health spending by one-third. No one picked up the slack.

… “The policy that led to the release of most of the nation’s mentally ill patients from the hospital to the community is now widely regarded as a major failure,” declared The New York Times in 1984. “States proved more enthusiastic about emptying the old facilities than about providing new ones,” the Chicago Tribune noted in 1989. “Many patients went from straitjackets to steam grates.”

… The Great Recession accelerated the nation’s downward trend in mental-health spending. Between 2009 and 2012, America’s 50 state legislatures cut a total of nearly $4.5 billion in services for the mentally ill, even as patient intakes increased by nearly 10 percent during the height of the economic crisis. Until a few years ago, Chicago had 12 mental health clinics. In 2011, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's first budget proposed closing six of them. The closures—city officials referred to them as “consolidations”—would save the city an estimated $3 million as it struggled to balance its budget.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/americas-largest-mental-hospital-is-a-jail/395012/

Something even bigger happened to healthcare after this that surely fixed mental health issue since it was Dems who controlled executive branch and dominated Congress with 60 Senate seats at one point. Obamacare was allegedly the cure for all our ills. Dems definitely had the power to shove anything they wanted down our throats with 2 years of overwhelming control over 2 branches of govt. Not as overwhelming but Dems had control over the same 2 branches for first 2 years of Biden’s autopen.

If they felt something was still broken they would have attempted to fix it correct?? Or do they just like playing politics with the mentally ill including the mass shooters???