There's a lot of value in having a community. But since it can't be commoditized and sold, capitalism doesn't know how to increase it. Instead we get increases in measurable things, and economists pretend those are the only things that matter.
But as I read in a book about systems: it's a lot more comforting to think that the problem is somewhere "out there", rather than confronting the fact that our system is setting up people to fail.
It's a lot easier to point at guns and say, "let's get these off the streets!", rather than confront the more difficult reality of everything I mentioned.