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Biden to create new office of gun violence prevention
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Exactly and the republicans are already saying it. Like I support reasonable gun control. I’m even cool with a constitutional amendment to go full Australia with it. But the diagnosed mentally ill aren’t the ones doing this. Our gun violence problem stems from our violence problem not our mental illness problem. You’ll stop a lot more mass shootings taking guns from those who’ve been investigated for domestic violence than those who’ve been treated for depression.
Also we have enough mess shootings that I don’t even know how many days if any it’s been since the last one. . Trans people are disproportionately unlikely to be mass shooters.
Personally I'm not in favor of most gun control, I do feel people have a right to defend themselves and most things proposed aren't reasonable from that standpoint. Those convicted of DV already are barred from firearms ownership (iirc except in VT, but the law is federal, idk how that works but whatever lol). Most of our gun deaths are suicides, so actually depression is a major and related issue, but imo depriving depressed people of their rights catagorically is a clear violation of multiple human rights and I don't support that either.
True, but also gun owners are disproportionately not school shooters compared to those who are, it's actually a fraction of a percent of our gun crime, something like .001%, it's way more rare than you think just as a phoenomenon. 99% of gun owners will thankfully never even have to pull the trigger in defense, much less will they likely shoot up a school. The other problems simply must be addressed to get anywhere on this issue.