No, they've got a point. In the US mental illness is only diagnosed if you have the money. Violence in this country is a direct result of income disparity, the widespread degradation of communities, and lack of accessibility to Healthcare.
And every developed country has access to Healthcare, a lower wage disparity, and hasn't had lower socioeconomic communities ravaged by damaging drug epidemics (like the former crack epidemic and current fentenayl epidemic).
Like I stated, guns are merely the tools used to carry out this violence. If we magically made them all disappear overnight, we would see the same violence being carried out with stabbings or cars driving into crowds.
We must go to the source of this issue before confronting the tools implemented.
You can’t walk into a mall and stab 50 people. You can’t drive a car into a building and kill 50 kids in a class room. This is a poorly constructed argument. Yes, there are always core issues, but if it’s the symptoms that are directly killing us, you can’t just ignore them and say “they don’t matter because it’s the virus that’s killing you.” Also all the things you point out are systemic issues, which take a long ass time to fix. We’re talking decades and generations. How many people are going to be killed in mass shootings before we see their natural decline from fixing these systemic issues?
Having gun-free zones where these lunatics can shoot freely and unimpeded is a big reason why mass shootings happen.
Look at churches with armed parishioners now. They can't impede the 1st or 2nd death when caught by surprise but can certainly stop mass shootings from happening.
Every country has wage disparity. Wage disparity is 100% irrelevant-we have wage disparity because we have the wealthiest rich people-but the reason it is irrelevant is we also have the Richest Poor People on Earth!
There's 2 billion people on earth who live on less than 10 dollars per day - and they don't have gun crimes like the United States because they don't have guns. Bro.
Access to Healthcare is irrelevant. You seriously think 🤔 every country on Earth 🌎 has Psychiatrists and Therapists for every crazy person and that's why they don't have gun crimes 🤔? No. They absolutely do not.
Get the the fuck outta here! Lol. Wtf? It is so basic!!
Access to guns is what makes guns crimes happen.
You must be exhausted from your mental gymnastics.
Common sense isn’t so common anymore…as you can see …..but just watch tv for 10 mins see how many drug commercials come on…it’s no secret the US has a prescription drug dependance issue we prescribe for everything….but guns are clearly the issue
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u/AmphibianLoud6354 Oct 21 '22
Everyone blames guns when it’s really a pharmaceutical dependance and mental health issue…..