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So I watched this documentary, and I had a few takeaways.
Critique of the role the left plays in this discussion:
4 boys are spotlighted in this film. 3 of them are raised by a single mom. The 1 that isn't, has obvious and severe issues. He rocks back and forth, his hands make claw shapes, and he waves them around involuntarily. This kid without a doubt had severe health issues, that went beyond just mental health.
For the other 3 boys, while I don't want to assume a lack of serious mental health issues, if there was a male in those homes, I don't think they would need to be put in residential full time mental health care. The lack of a male in those homes, was either a important contributing factor to the behaviour of those boys, or the important contributing factor.
No mention of this topic was made in the documentary.
Critique of the role the right plays in this discussion.
The congressman's son who killed himself because they couldn't find him a bed in a mental health facility for the night, was eye opening. If a congressmen can't get his kid a bed in a psychiatric hospital when his dad took him to the ER, on the same night his son later then stabbed his dad, and committed suicide, what chance does Jane or Jon Q Public have?
Ronald Reagan is a God damn villain for what he did to mental HC spending. We need government for mental HC. These shootings we see today, might just be the direct result of the massive cuts Reagan made to mental Health Care spending.
We already have health care rationing. When they refused that kid a bed, that was a death panel.
Discuss............