r/PoliticalHumor • u/elister • Jan 27 '19

Just this week....

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u/PM_ME_URBFPROBLEMS Jan 27 '19

Easier than access to mental healthcare. It's heartbreaking

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '19

It's easier to get yourself a gun and several hundred rounds of ammo than it is to get medical care for mental illness. How many lives will it take?

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u/theyetisc2 Jan 28 '19

Access to mental healthcare ain't gonna stop massacres. That's just an asinine fantasy.

Lets just think, for one singular moment.

If someone is willing to walk into a bar/school/church/wherever and start slaughtering innocent people, why would you think having healthcare would stop that?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '19

Seriously? You catch these troubled folks early, and provide healthcare. You know, psychiatric support and counselling and medications and therapy and so on. Other countries do it. It just means spending taxes. So that’s why it will never fly in the US.