Trump suggest opening mental health facilities to get the sick off the streets

Washington Examiner:
President Trump expressed interest in rebuilding mental institutions while responding to questions about the recent mass shootings on Thursday.

"We can't let these people be on the streets," Trump said on his way to a campaign rally in New Hampshire. Answering questions about various topics including gun control legislation, the president asserted, "We're looking at the whole gun situation. I do want people to remember the words 'mental illness,' these people are mentally ill."

Trump then took the opportunity to share possible solutions to mental illness in the U.S., which he believes play a key role in violent gun attacks. "And nobody talks about that, but these are mentally ill people ... I think we have to start building institutions again," he suggested. "If you look at the '60s and '70s, so many of these institutions were closed, and the people were just allowed to go onto the streets, and that was a terrible thing for our country."
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The mass murder attacks increased significantly after mental health facilities closed in reaction to a Hollywood film "One Flew Over the Kooko's Nest."  That has more to do with the killings than the sell of semi-automatic weapons which existed before the closures.

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