Non-funding Mental Health services and gun policies

Happy #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

RantWoman needs to have a small tirade and then to share some media moments.

Seattle Times: Stop conflating Mental Illness with gun violence

Can we please do some nuance here? #mentalillness does not inevitably lead to #GunViolence. And gun suicides or alienated bullied kids many with #disabilities need the right #Mentalhealth support way more than they need weapons!#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

— Dorene Cornwell (@DoreneFC) May 28, 2022

All in With Chris Hayes about utter failure of "Good guys With Guns"

In FL, after Parkland, the number of armed people in schools was increased dramatically. Also increasing dramatically: the level of gun violence on or near school grounds and also the number of expulsions from school.

See USA Today article

Legislators responded to the 2018 Parkland school shooting by hiring police officers in every elementary, middle and high school in Florida. It didn’t make students safer. Instead, it led to this: https://t.co/ew9NxbWfBe pic.twitter.com/ykc5win0hm

— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) May 26, 2022

So if I'm clear on their timeline here, when it was not legal for him to buy guns, he didn't get them. And then when it was, he bought some and attacked an elementary school.
Too bad this doesn't offer any kind of hint as to what kind of policy solutions might make a difference. https://t.co/aeVeXTUUrv

— Amanda Taub (@amandataub) May 27, 2022

And for extra grins, an Beau of the Fifth Column item Some reasons arming teachers is a dumb unrealistic idea