Republicans last year: "We need to fund mental health more so we have less mass shootings"
Republicans now: "We need to cut mental health funding, because money".
Yeah, it always bugged me when mental health was brought up after shootings, since it was clearly just an attempt to distract people from the issue of gun control/background checks, and not a call to actually address mental health. Anyway, this is awful, and another example of how much contempt certain congresspeople have for the most vulnerable members of society.
plus ofc there's the fact that mentally ill people are
less likely to commit violent crime than neurotypical people and
more likely to fall victim to violent crime
