-eREKTion-I don't believe gun control is even possible anymore. If we could live in a country with no guns, I'd be for it but that's never going to happen because we're too far gone from that. All the gun control being proposed is too weak and couldn't stop these events. Unfortunately, proposed gun control has to be weak because strict gun control is too unpopular and if it was even passed it would be unenforceable.
It sounds like an answer out of the NRA's playbook but mental health is the crisis causing this. There's other countries with lots of guns and they don't have this problem because they have public mental health care. If we did too, that system could play into the existing gun background check process. If there was a free mental health resource that people could seek or be referred to and real professionals were able to treat them and flag them on background checks if needed, it would stop senseless violence like this.
The fucked up thing with that is that the gun nut types that always say "it's mental health lets do nothing about the gun side of things" also are against any kind of healthcare and def fixing access to mental health care.
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Pretty much they have no interest in fixing it they just want to be able to keep as many guns as they feel like it because A shooting guns is fun or B they're delusional about the government. Before any of those types quote me, bush was pretty popular and he passed the patriot act. Where were you in the streets protesting that with your guns? You weren't, you were waving American flags and doing USA chants.
We also have this weird action hero thing. Everyone wants to be a friggin hero. Random people getting shot seems to be a shit ton more likely than the action hero saving the world but that's the world we want so that's the narrative we'll cling to.
If children can't go to school without getting shot, you can't buy some groceries without getting shot, but we all have plenty of guns I'd call that a win right?
Idk I get it, yiu have the list of a million reasons why guns saved everyone, guns cure cancer, your mom was going blind but she shot a gun and nkw she can see. Cool i don't want to hash that out.
It's pretty fucked up when the second people here 19 children shot dead at school they instantly go for "Guns are fine we need more guns, teachers should have had guns, kids should have had guns" At least give it 30 seconds of wow, that's terrible, before diving right in.
Most of that was to the thread btw, just replied to you at the top.