We can talk about 'gun control' all you want. But there are many people across the societal spectrum suffering from severe mental disease, and we are failing them.
- School shootings
- Drug epidemic
- Suicide epidemic
- Homelessness
All of these are PRIMARILY issues of psychiatric illness. They are all the same problem, and we keep trying to solve them in different ways.
WE ARE FAILING PEOPLE.
For example, @ShellenbergerMD has written a book detailing how much mental health failures in California (theoretically the most progressive and 'caring' state) leave thousands on the streets, in violence riddled homeless encampments...and no serious mental health solution.
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"DeSantis wants to resurrect Florida State Guard, a WWII force disbanded in the late 1940s. Unlike the Florida National Guard, the FSG would answer solely to the Governor. No federal deployments. No federal missions. No federal dollars."
1. This is far less important than you think. 2. States like NY, NJ, MI, CT had massive NATURAL IMMUNITY building up all through early 2020...one of the big reasons they are doing better now. That isn't exactly ideal.
"A SWAT team responded after a man was killed...Police officers responding to a call about 10:30 a.m. saw four people get out of two cars and begin firing toward a house...People inside returned fire and hit one of the gunmen, police said."
Kudos to the @WTA: "Simon said the Tour, which has a deal to host 11 tournaments in China, would weigh the possibility of no longer doing business in the communist nation if there were not “appropriate results.”
"I’m not sitting here and thinking that I’m going to solve the world’s problems by any means. But what I am here to do is that we have an athlete that’s part of the WTA family that’s come out with serious allegations. We’re going to be 100% supportive of that..."