They couldnât give a flying fuck about mental health. Itâs pure, resentful, culture war for them. Theyâll have heavily armed ex-soldiers patrolling every school in the country before theyâll admit thereâs a gun problem.
The only way gun control might actually happen is if BLM or Anarchist groups start openly carrying weapons when marching. Reagan himself passed the Mulford Act in no time at all once the Blank Panthers started armed patrols in Oakland.
Agree they couldnt give a fuck about mental health, we certainly dont either here tho, if youâve ever visited a patient in 5B youâd agreeâŚthe availability of automatic weapons is the key issue over thereâŚit is nuts.
There are just the 300 million guns in the US.
Its not practical or realistic to assume banning guns solves this problem.
Does anyone have any real solutions which doesnât involve something as ridiculous as banning a product of which there are 300 million of in circulation?
You could make it more difficult to procure guns. Obviously the ones already in circulation are out there, but you could impose stricter rules on private or public sales. Itâs too easy for anyone who doesnât have a criminal record to get their hands on guns.
Obviously ban semis and the sale of existing ones. Try and remove them from the population using financial incentives.
There should be a law that require those treating mental patients who express the desire to take violent action to report it. At least get them into a database and not allow them buy guns. Make it a health database, but link it to the criminal background check system. Hard ask for a huge entity like the US govt.
Spend more of welfare on mental health treatment. This guy had dropped out of therapy, so who knows might have dropped his prescription visits as well. Coming off SSRIs suddenly can have poor outcomes (speculation).
Youâve spent the last three years on here whoring yourself for politicians who are NRA whores, so donât bother continuing with any pretence that you have any problem with the USAâs gun murder epidemic.
Have you considered how this mandatory reporting might impact on treatment and patient confidentiality and what the obvious medium to long term consequence would inevitably be?
There has been no serious attempt by either party to bring meaningful legislation, in decades. You would know and accept that fact if you werenât so blinkered.