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Mental Health Clinics Should Have More Security

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Every so often somebody shoots up a mental health clinic and kills people who are working there. Here's the problem, they don't have good security or any security at such clinics. With mental health clinics its obvious there's going to be very dangerous people coming there. Whenever somebody does shoot up a clinic people blame guns and want to have more gun control. Why not have better security? They should have at least the same kind of security they have at clinics that they have at airports, if not better.
 
DebateChallenge said:
Every so often somebody shoots up a mental health clinic and kills people who are working there. Here's the problem, they don't have good security or any security at such clinics. With mental health clinics its obvious there's going to be very dangerous people coming there. Whenever somebody does shoot up a clinic people blame guns and want to have more gun control. Why not have better security? They should have at least the same kind of security they have at clinics that they have at airports, if not better.
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Please list which Mental Health facilities have NO security.
 
Praxas said:
Please list which Mental Health facilities have NO security.
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Well for one thing the clinic where Laura Wilcox was shot and killed while she was working there didn't have security, it was Nevada County's public mental health clinic. If they had good security no doubt she would still be alive.
 
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DebateChallenge said:
Well for one thing the clinic where Laura Wilcox was shot and killed while she was working there didn't have security, it was Nevada County's public mental health clinic. If they had good security no doubt she would still be alive.
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That was back in 2001. I'm talking today.
 
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That was back in 2001. I'm talking today.
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I don't know about now but it was a disgrace that they didn't have better security back then. As I said, I don't know if they do have security now and if people are able to bring weapons into health clinics but even before Wilcox was shot I knew this fellow who was a psychiatrist and he worked with patients that sometimes pulled weapons on him. That should've been a wakeup call for better security.
 
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I don't know about now but it was a disgrace that they didn't have better security back then. As I said, I don't know if they do have security now and if people are able to bring weapons into health clinics but even before Wilcox was shot I knew this fellow who was a psychiatrist and he worked with patients that sometimes pulled weapons on him. That should've been a wakeup call for better security.
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Of course it is horrible which is why Mental Health Facilities DO have security and some (if they are large enough) have police protection inside. That was my point. I agree with you fully on the point of that environment needs security. I haven't been to a health facility (mental or regular) that doesn't have some type of security or police.
 
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