This article discusses reasons not only why re-opening asylums could be good, but includes some of the history behind those that have been downsized or closed. The article appropriately points out that even though opening asylums could be good, it would likely do nothing to prevent mass shootings or other forms of violence and points to the access to guns as being the issue that is feeding gun violence.
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They should reopen Allentown State Hospital. Some of the ppl I know have fallen through the cracks of the mental health system