"A Meaningful Action to prevent incidents such as the tragic one that took place in Newtown, Connecticut Include Better Funding for the Public Mental Health System. By many accounts, the public mental health system is ineffective. It can be difficult to receive quality treatment and in some cases any treatment at all. Our status quo mental health system represents a fragmented system, one in which many fall through the cracks, and is in need of drastic change. Very often, individuals without health insurance can’t and don’t receive mental health treatment. Federal and state government should stop slashing the budgets of mental health systems and realize that a mentally healthy society is less likely to produce mentally unhealthy people"