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"It's a mental health problem!"
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Youre not entirely wrong, but I gotta say how funny it is to see a post complaining about how everyone blows each other's positions way up fisish by saying American liberals want to take away all guns. I'm sure you can find an American liberal that says that, but they're in a massive minority. Most of us would be very happy with Canada's level of gun control. You have to take a gun safety class and pass a safty test for any gun, with an extra class and test and a license for hand guns and assault rifles.
Canada also has a system for helping people with mental health problems that doesn't bankrupt the person.
Im pretty sure that's exactly what the Democrats have been asking for for the last 30 odd years.
As an American who's about as progun as you can get and still think the government has a responsibility to tax its wealthiest citizens and keep it's poorest out of poverty, I'd welcome the same level of gun control as we apply to owning motor vehicles: license programs to ensure everyone who can legal own/operate one is familiar with safe use, practice and undergone a bare minimum level of mental evaluation so that a psycopath or sociopatn can't just have a bad day to turn it on the general public. It would be a tough pill to swallow for some gun owners but if it was paired with removing a lot of the baseless restrictions (looking at you California compliant) with regular requirements such as yearly renewals and checkups with the ability for referrals to be made if a person starts acting in a way they could become a danger and law enforcement required to act upon it or face immediate termination if they were found to ignore it.
Combine that with single payer/universal healthcare with a comprehensive mental health for every citizen and it could lead to better diagnosing people suffering from conditions that could make them a threat to public safety and get them treatment that would hopefully help them live and not suffer from such conditions to say nothing of lower the chances for these violent outbursts.
Its a fantasy, yes I know. But the current system clearly doesn't work, and prohibition and war on drugs has shown repeatedly that restricting everyone to stop the minority of abusers only makes a massive underground/black market for such things that actually makes it easier to people to abuse them in ways that are more difficult to track and prevent. I'd rather try to make the fantasy work than pursue a method I know is only goin to have short term benefits and long term problems.
Yeah but there are lots of people saying it's the guns (literally in this thread) - that's basically what the OP is about. But even then the right wing acting like scared little babies about it too.
It's just everything is turned up to 11 with you lot.
All the fucking time.
Says the person who wrote a comment filled with hyperbole and points taken to their extremes.
Where's the hyperbole?
You use the word everything a lot and phrases like "you're all". That's hyperbole. You can't possibly know what all 330+ million people think or how everyone acts and are likely basing your views off what you see on social media or in the news, not real life.