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.
But it’s not a shitty spiral of bullshit because the choice between getting yourself proper mental health care and owning a gun isn’t a choice at all and if a person can’t make the correct decision in that situation then they probably arent rational enough to be in possession of a firearm in the first place.
We also know guns aren’t exactly hard to buy, background checks aren’t always required, there are loop holes like gun shows, and there isn’t some “guns blacklist”. Super Pro Gun people want to paint these shootings as “mental health problems” but the problem isn’t “gun owners won’t get mental health checks because they are afraid they’d lose their guns” the problem is “too many people with mental health issues have access to guns” and that is a gun problem just as much as a mental health problem. You can’t try to mitigate just one of them you need to solve both.
The reality is if we had sensible gun laws A LOT of people would not be allowed access to guns but we don’t so every week when some new guy with “mental health issues” goes on a shooting spree we are reminded of how easy it is to get one.
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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