• girlfreddy@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      So according to you just because we haven’t figured out how to stop it we should just throw in the towel, right?

      Gtfo with your fatalism.

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          I’m guessing you think that mental illness is the root cause and also that you don’t think a dime should go towards a universal healthcare plan that includes caring for the mentally ill.

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      1 year ago

      Actually you are the one work the false equivalency.

      You know why your comparison is idiotic? Because it is comparing a mountain (gun violence) to a mole hill (vehicular homicide). If what you said was at all accurate, people would be using those methods significantly more often in other developed countries. Guess what? They don’t. They are used at basically the same rates as here in the US. The major difference is that those countries have much guns per capita.

      So again stop pretending like the comparison is even close to a good one or that you have some sort of gotcha.

        • Considering the same group of people who fights gun control legislation tooth and nail is also very much responsible for the lack of mental health services (and general sorry state of health care) in our country, it sounds to me like you don’t really want to solve the gun problem nor the mental health problem you predictably deflect to.

          And yes, I’m assuming you are a Republican. If you aren’t, try not acting like one and folks won’t make that mistake.

          R won’t support restrictions on gun ownership because they say the problem is mental health, but they won’t support spending on mental health either. (Most likely because they seem to oppose anything that would actually help people who suffer.)

          Reagan undercuts funding on mental health, resulting in the closure of mental health institutions nationwide:

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1980

          https://sociology.org/content/vol003.004/thomas.html

          This last one is a ddg search - you can just pick which article you want to read about Republicans voting against mental health funding.

          https://duckduckgo.com/?q=republicans+vote+against+mental+health+funding

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          1 year ago

          For mental health? Most of them are not much better. Try again.

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              1 year ago

              Japan and South Korea, for instances, are certainly not known for their great mental health. Guess what they don’t have? No constant mass shootings, no trucks being used to mow people down, no constant fertilizer bombs.