There's No Effective Emergency Mental Health System in America

As a nation, we have the singular distinction of being so familiar with mass shootings we already know the narrative gun control opponents roll out in the aftermath: It's not about guns, it's about mental illness.

In the wake of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in which a former student killed 17 students and teachers with a legally purchased AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, President Donald Trump seemed to attempt to shift responsibility onto the victims and survivors, apparently for not following proper protocol for dealing with the mentally ill.