Texas Republicans allow guns in Mental Institutions

What can go wrong here?

I am worried for friends and relatives in Texas. What could possibly go wrong here? The Texas state bird is the LOON!~

Before the state’s new open carry law went into effect, guns were banned at those state facilities. No one — visitors, deliverymen and the like — could bring firearms anywhere on campus. Even local law enforcement officers, who were already allowed to bring their weapons into the facilities, regularly lock up their guns before entering Austin State Hospital out of an abundance of caution.

Now visitors can bring guns into the buildings where patients live. Employees are still prohibited from bringing them on campus.

All my life, working in mental health and psychiatry, guns are never allowed in the hospital or on the psychiatric floor. Just not allowed. The potential for tragedy is ridiculous.

“While licensed visitors are legally permitted to carry on our hospital campuses, our patients are being actively treated for psychiatric conditions and generally it’s best not to expose them to weapons of any kind,” Williams said.
There isn’t a whole lot to add: It’s insane.

This is, as far as I am concerned, predicated on the Myth of the Gun: the delusional system shared by tens of millions of Americans that guns are some sort of magical tool that prevents all sorts of problems that it doesn’t actually prevent and solves problems they cannot actually solve and they cling to this delusion bitterly.

And they act on it.

Not all is lost, though;

Alcohol and tobacco are still banned from campus.
I cannot believe this is actually happening.