GOP presidential hopefuls call for mental hospitals following Maine shooting

Mental health or guns?
That issue has rushed to the fore yet again in the wake of a mass shooting, this time in Maine, where at least 18 people are dead from the gun of a suspect with a history of mental health problems.
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While Republicans have long pointed to mental healthcare rather than gun control as a solution, GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has taken it a step further in calling for the return of mental institutions.
“We must remove these violent, psychiatrically deranged people from their communities and be willing to involuntarily commit them,” Ramaswamy said Thursday. “That includes reviving mental health institutions: less reliance on pharmaceuticals, more reliance on faith-based approaches that restore purpose to people’s lives. We know from the 1990s how to stop violent crime. The real question is if we have the spine to do it.”
Republicans often talk about mental health following mass shootings. But Ramaswamy has been more overt than most in his calls to bring back mental hospita …