Unfortunately, it's about a for-profit healthcare industry. Without getting too political, there's simply no push for additional federal funding of mental health programs and most private insurance companies can't be bothered to cover folks who can't afford to pay hefty premiums/co-pays. This is why a lot of people with serious mental illnesses end up on the streets, and others with maybe less extreme conditions slip through the cracks in other ways.
Until we as a society are willing to accept that basic health care is a human right, and are willing to support this belief with our pocketbooks (i.e. higher taxes), this neglect/underserving of the mentally ill is going to continue to be a factor in some of these mass murders.
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