Gun homicides down dramatically, Americans unaware

Re:Gun homicides down dramatically, Americans unaware by lsllc on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @11:01PM (#7849973)

Poverty and lack of access to [mental] healthcare (in the US).

Gun violence is heavily skewed to poor areas; go to a wealthy area and people leave their doors/cars unlocked -- near zero crime.

Now show me a mass shooter that has not had serious, prior mental health problems.

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Re:Gun homicides down dramatically, Americans unaware by sportanova on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @11:04PM (#7849992)

What do other countries do in terms of mental healthcare to prevent these kind of things? Better monitoring and response to early warning signs, and then forcefully committing patients?

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Re:Gun homicides down dramatically, Americans unaware by sp332 on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @11:15PM (#7850028)

America had a movement to "de-institutionalize", that is, to help known mentally ill people adapt and cope with day-to-day life instead of locking them all in asylums. But the funding got cut... so now we have inadequate support and they end up in prisons because there are no asylums. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/12/w...

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Re:Gun homicides down dramatically, Americans unaware by sportanova on Friday June 06, 2014 @03:17AM (#7856571)

Interesting - but is that the same tactic that has been successful in other countries, that didn't cut funding?

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