After the August 27 mass shooting in Minneapolis that took the lives of 10-year-old Harper Moyski and another child and wounded 17 others, Harper’s parents wrote, “No family should ever have to endure this kind of pain. We urge our leaders and communities to take meaningful steps to address gun violence and the mental health crisis in this country.” As I had written in this paper on May 16, the current administration canceled the funding provided by the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which appropriated almost $2 billion for safer gun availability, for the training of clinicians and school-based mental health services, for crisis and early intervention, and for a national suicide hotline.

Second, in the e-edition of the July 1 Boston Globe, Ava Berger reported that the federal Depa

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