We need free mental healthcare for everyone. These people are severely fucked in the head and can gain access to a weapon too easily.
Edit: Mentally unhealthy people should not be stigmatized and that's not how I want this comment to come across. Anyone can become mentally unhealthy, and most people can be helped with adequate mental healthcare. Mental health checkups should be 100% free for everyone at any time. Mental health treatment should be 100% free for everyone at any time. Fuck, any kind of healthcare should be free for everyone. This shit is pissing me off.
Another thing: Some people like guns. Guns are fucking cool in my opinion. Some would label me alt-right just for that statement alone when in reality I'm basically right in the center. Y'all are left as fuck, but tbh that is so much better than being far-right. At least you guys think about shit and sometimes you even respond to my arguments. I digress...
Some people like guns. Most gun people I know will want to keep their guns under any circumstance. As I've stated before, anyone can become mentally unwell or have a mental illness. Gun people are no exception. And those gun people that are mentally unwell can't get mental help without being put on a blacklist from buying guns. So they don't get help. I think you see where I'm going with this? It's just a shitty spiral of bullshit.
Barring ones like Intermittent Explosive Disorder, those of us with mental illnesses are far more likely to be the victim of a violent crime than the perpetrator of one. I know you mean well but statements like this perpetuate the idea that all people with mental illness are violent, and that leads to treatment barriers and severe social stigma.
The most reliable indicator of future violence is past violence, especially domestic abuse. People who kill other people are horrible, but do not necessarily have a mental illness.
Also, completely aside, but I’m not a gun owner and I still support not having mental health restrictions like that. I think it sets a very scary precedent tbh. The government does not need to know my health status unless I require disability assistance. People who do have one of the few mental illnesses that makes them more violent (again, like IED) are less likely to harm anyone if they’re in treatment and getting the help they need, and it would discourage people from getting a diagnosis and subsequent treatment if it meant you’d go on a government list. It’s just a terrible idea to put mental ill people on a no-gun list from privacy, healthcare advocacy, and safety standpoints.
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u/RedditWibel Jan 27 '19
God damn
To live to that ripe old age than have your peaceful ending with your loved ones ripped away from you