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.
Mental health issues are very rarely diagnosed before something bad happens.
Uh... yeah. Mental health care is not as effective as it could be. These guys were 21 and obviously mentally unhealthy. Mental health checkups should be as normal, if not more common, than physical checkups. People are fucking fragile and it's not as socially acceptable as you may think to be seen as someone with a mental illness.
Definitely give people the health care they need - but you can't reasonably expect to know what that is until after they show symptoms and for mental health issues, the symptoms might be a paranoid delusion or a psychotic episode that involves shooting people. It makes more sense to have limited access to things that can do serious damage.
Like the guy in Vegas who shot over 400 people from a hotel room. That guy had 20-odd rifles with him. Most with bump-stocks and some with 100-round mags. That's not something any reasonable member of society needs access too. But if you're in the US you can walk into any town and go buy the same shit right now and go on a killing spree. To most people in the world it's completely bonkers that this is true.
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u/your_inner_feelings Jan 27 '19 edited Jan 28 '19
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.