Quote (fender @ Feb 15 2021 07:56pm)
yeah, because mental health is a US exclusive problem. the fact that school shootings (firearm suicide / accidents / mass shootings...) are not major issues in your peer country has nothing to do with the fact that they have stricter gun regulations, it's all just mental health...
my god, you gun nuts are so incredibly dishonest and deluded. do you have the slightest idea how ridiculous what you're saying there sounds? even with regular mandatory (and i'm sure as a 'libertarian' (lol), you're strictly against this) mental health checkups and treatment, shootings would remain a problem, so what mental healthcare policy specifically would prevent them? humour me. after all, you claim to be against school shootings (just not as much as you are against any kind of gun law, hence the idiotic conjecture and fearmongering concerning the proposed legislation)...
It might be a problem but it'd be less of a problem and the number of casualties would be acceptable. I'd argue that the number of casualties is already acceptable but I understand why people are scared.
We need WAY more school counselors to deal with bullying, social media, etc. There's a reason that the number of school shootings has skyrocketed this past decade whereas they were much less frequent when I was in school. The gun laws haven't really changed all that much so we need to dig deeper.
I will give you this though: Many conservatives will scream "mental health" but will scoff at the idea of funding it. The truth of the matter is that they just don't care.