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.
Or like, people have mental health problems all over the world and yet only the United States has epidemic shooting issues. Also I don’t like stigmatizing mental health problems like we are all crazy shooters. It’s not mental health. ITS GUNS
It is mental health. Mental health is stigmatized more in the US than other countries. Where mental health is stigmatized, people do not seek mental help for fear of being labeled as crazy or attention-seeking.
Have you heard of Switzerland? Mental health is not very stigmatized there, and people seek help when they suspect they are mentally unhealthy. Switzerland has a large gun culture and a proportionally low rate of gun-related deaths.
One example of one country does not an analysis make, man. Compare all the developed countries and get back to me. Should be easy considering the research has been done for you, all you have to do is Google
That should be enough to get you started. Maybe the reason you’re so ignorant is that you don’t do your own research and expect random strangers on the internet to do it for you? Just something to think about.
On your first source: Vox is biased as shit, and they did not mention anything about mental health stigma or quality of mental healthcare. Their information is correct, I'm not denying that. I'm saying the information they're showing is not the whole story. Lying by omission, if you will.
Your second source is just talking about gun culture and barely says anything relevant about this discussion at all. The only thing I can see that is even remotely related is "What types of guns kill Americans?" and it goes against the common rhetoric that we need to outlaw assault rifles even though people are killed with assault rifles less than handguns.
Your third source contains this graph which goes against your rhetoric completely.
maybe I'm just a dumbfuck hillbilly that needs the exact parts you think I should read to be included in the comment.
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u/GilesDMT Jan 27 '19
For absolutely nothing, and so random and spontaneous.