It is interesting, isn't it? The conservative states actually have few and few mental health beds than prison beds.

...It is now extremely difficult.(click here) It is now extremely difficult to find a bed for a seriously mentally ill person who needs to be hospitalized. In 1955 there was one psychiatric bed for every 300 Americans. In 2005 there was one psychiatric bed for every 3,000 Americans. Even worse, themajority of the existing beds were filled with court-ordered (forensic) cases and thus not really available....  

But, of course, there is no need for gun control. I don't believe I have to state anything else, do I? Next time Wayne La Pierre states the problem is mental health in the USA, remember this.
   
This information is a little dated, but, maybe Governor Jan Brewer loves Obamacare because she knows there is no real funding for mental health in Arizona which resulted in an attempted assassination of an Arizona USA Congresswoman. 

 
Using 2004–2005 data not previously published, we found that in the United States there are now more than three times more seriously mentally ill persons in jails and prisons than in hospitals. Looked at by individual states, in North Dakota there are approximately an equal number of mentally ill persons in jails and prisons compared to hospitals. By contrast, Arizona and Nevada have almost ten times more mentally ill persons in jails and prisons than in hospitals. It is thus fact, not hyperbole, that America’s jails and prisons have become our new mental hospitals.

The trend in the conservative states has been to remove more and more mental health beds. So, when a parent of a young man realizes he is dangerous and seeks to have him treated, there simply isn't any help and/or mental health beds to be found. They are left to wander inside their own lives and minds, until, they perform a heinous act and then they are considered criminally insane and locked away. 

The shooter in Arizona was known to have mental health issues, but, remained undiagnosed and walked into a Walmart and purchased all the guns and ammunition he wanted. 

The only way of ending gun violence in our nation is to control the guns in circulation. 

When Wayne La Pierre states most gun owners want their guns, he knows there is a level of fear in this country based on the fact, 'There are crazies with guns.' He knows the people will stand with him when it comes to gun control.

I sincerely doubt anyone will find large donations to mental health facilities by the NRA, their donors, members (Life time or otherwise) or gun industry. They have to spend monies on propaganda to prevent the truth from being known.

Go ahead, America. Live in fear. It serves the purpose.

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