Focusing on mental health instead of gun laws to reduce crime, former Vice President Mike Pence told a National Rifle Association gathering that 'in the 1960s, liberals emptied our psych wards.' That’s oversimplified. Ronald Reagan and other fiscal cons...
"With so much violence taking place at the hands of those with severe mental illness, the answer to mass shootings is not fewer guns, it's more institutional mental health in this country," PenceHe continued:"In the 1960s, liberals emptied our psych wards, only to fill our streets and ultimately our prisons with the mentally ill."
Multiple experts told PolitiFact that blaming liberals, or Democrats, for shutting down mental health institutions is a vast oversimplification of a far more complicated history. Pence’s statement is"inaccurate and unfortunate," said Daniel Yohanna, a University of Chicago Medical Center associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience. Yohanna called Pence’s statement"overly simplistic" and said it"puts blame on the people that have little to do with mass shootings."Patients and staff of what was then called the St. Louis City Insane Asylum in 1904.
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