Considering he got shot and a his employee paralyzed by gun violence, he kinda had to
The irony of Republicans saying it’s mental illness and not the gun is that Republicans lead by Ronald Reagan defunded a ton of our mental health care system back in the 80s https://sites.psu.edu/psy533wheeler/2017/02/08/u01-ronald-reagan-and-the-federal-deinstitutionalization-of-mentally-ill-patients/comment-page-1/ …
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They closed the state hospitals, turned the patients out into the streets, and provided almost no funding for housing or support. A few are still alive, and suffered greatly, used to ask us why they couldn’t go back to the state hospital.
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I grew up in California, living there when Reagan closed the mental hospitals as governor. As a nurse, I saw the devastation from his policies.
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Exactly right. The Republican blood-letting started back in the ‘80’s with those Reagan cutbacks.
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It's both, we need to focus on our attention on getting our elected officials to come together and address these issuespic.twitter.com/CcUYhmgU2K
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Yes, exactly!
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And the fact that the
@SenateGOP@HouseGOP have voted more than a dozen times to repeal the ACA which covers mental health services#MassacreMitchThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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That was 40 years ago are you really gonna blame republicans for that today?
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It created a huge problem that was never addressed. I live in CA, then & now, and the closing of the mental hospitals & the defunding of programs, I repeat, created a huge problem that has only escalated & now has grown out of control & no one wants to deal with it.
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