For most of the 20th century, from 1900 to 1970, there was an average of four mass public shootings per decade. Throughout the ’70s, as the loony bins were being emptied, the average number of mass shootings suddenly shot up to 13. In the 3.3 decades since 1980, after all the mental institutions had been turned into condos, mass shootings skyrocketed to 36 on average per decade.
Mass shootings don’t correlate with gun ownership; they correlate with not locking up schizophrenics. (…)
Contrary to Franken’s claim, some of the mentally ill are far more likely to be violent. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, schizophrenics and similarly disturbed individuals are three times more likely to commit a violent crime than others.
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Cue the leftists bleating, “Reagan kicked the crazies out on the street to save money.”
No, Reagan kicked the crazies out on the street to shut up the leftists who were bleating, “Locking up crazy people is evil zzzzzz Nurse Ratched blah Willowbrook blah R. D. Laing wahhhh!!!!”
Freeing the crazies was received liberal wisdom at the time and he fell for it.
All these deaths are in fact your fault, leftists.
