Mass shooting in a school? Need God. Mass shooting in a church?....

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i dont see how this is testimony that us as a society shun mentally ill people or look down on them for getting help.

Here, C/L.  Just for you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk...re-system/

Seven facts about America’s mental health-care system

#'s 2 and 5 are of great significance.

the Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963. That law pushed for more treatment in community settings rather than in state-run, psychiatric institutions. 

By treating the rest in the least-restrictive settings possible, the thinking went, we would protect the civil liberties of the mentally ill and hasten their recoveries. Surely community life was better for mental health than a cold, unfeeling institution.

But in the decades since, the sickest patients have begun turning up in jails and homeless shelters with a frequency that mirrors that of the late 1800s. “We’re protecting civil liberties at the expense of health and safety,” says Doris A. Fuller, the executive director of the Treatment Advocacy Center, a nonprofit group that lobbies for broader involuntary commitment standards. “Deinstitutionalization has gone way too far.”