In the letter from Mr. Ginn and in the Citizen’s View (March 14), both correspondents assign the causation of mass killings to people with mental health issues rather than guns.

The Reagan administration initiated the closure and defunding of many psychiatric institutions, believing that many formally institutionalized patients could be treated in outpatient facilities in conjunction with newly de-veloped pharmacological drugs.

Reagan’s and subsequent administrations have failed to adequately fund and staff these facilities. As a result, many regions, including our own and, unforgivably...