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Old 12-15-2012, 04:31 PM
 
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Old 12-15-2012, 04:34 PM
 
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Old 12-15-2012, 04:37 PM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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Easier to Buy a Gun in US than to Get (Mental) Health Care


Why?
Because guns are designed, manufactured, and sold by private businesses in a free market, while mental health care is often provided or funded by government-controlled or govt-run insurance programs.
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Old 12-15-2012, 04:59 PM
 
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Because guns are designed, manufactured, and sold by private businesses in a free market, while mental health care is often provided or funded by government-controlled or govt-run insurance programs.
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Old 12-15-2012, 05:02 PM
 
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Only in America where owning guns is a right but healthcare is not, bloody shame.
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Old 12-15-2012, 05:05 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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Because guns are designed, manufactured, and sold by private businesses in a free market, while mental health care is often provided or funded by government-controlled or govt-run insurance programs.
Mental health care is available to people who can afford it, whose insurance covers it, or who are poor enough to qualify for government programs that provide it.

Guns are available to anyone who can afford them. No primary-care gun providers, no "gatekeepers," no gun-insurance company bureaucrats standing in the way.
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Old 12-15-2012, 05:06 PM
 
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Only in America where owning guns is a right but healthcare is not, bloody shame.
That's because gun owning is a right spelled out in the constitution but health care is not. It's all about what's in the constitution. Welcome to the 18th century.
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Old 12-15-2012, 05:07 PM
 
Location: Del Rio, TN
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Do you need a federal background check to get mental health care?

Can you get mental health care if you're a convicted felon? Under 21? Accused of domestic violence?

Does the federal government pay for free guns for those that need them and can't afford them?

Can you get them at the free clinic down the street?

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Old 12-15-2012, 05:07 PM
 
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i could get a gun faster than i can get some weed.. something wrong with this picture..
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Old 12-15-2012, 05:08 PM
 
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That's because gun owning is a right spelled out in the constitution but health care is not. It's all about what's in the constitution. Welcome to the 18th century.
Very unfortunate......and sad.
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