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Maybe psychologists and therapists can decide who has the violent tendency, and put their patients' names in the national data base. This will make it at least a little bit harder for the severely mentally ill to obtain firearms legally.
Don't you think we have enough national databases in use ?
Nobody knows they are in them til they get stopped and can't remove their names ever.
One keystroke by some GED office worker and you're branded for life.
WOW, I was reading the article 25 Deadliest Mass Shootings in U.S. last night and did a research on all these shooters. I found out almost all of them suffered from untreated mental illnesses.
I wonder why do some people always blame the guns after a mass shooting? Mental illness is often not to blame in mass shooting? Why?
Not to mention that the worst mass killings aren't committed by guns. Explosives and fire are far more lethal.
If we take away guns, they'll just find another way. It's not about guns. It's about the mentally ill.
WOW, I was reading the article 25 Deadliest Mass Shootings in U.S. last night and did a research on all these shooters. I found out almost all of them suffered from untreated mental illnesses.
I wonder why do some people always blame the guns after a mass shooting? Mental illness is often not to blame in mass shooting? Why?
You're just trying to indict the pharmaceutical industry.
Maybe psychologists and therapists can decide who has the violent tendency, and put their patients' names in the national data base.
We (American society) have a hard time deciding who murdered somebody, or even if it WAS a murder, even AFTER the crime has been committed, the body is there bleeding on the sidewalk, and smoke is coming out of the barrel of the gun in the other guy's hand.
And now people want us to decide who WILL commit a crime.... long before any crime is even committed?
In our grief over the deaths of those innocent people in Santa Barbara, we too easily delude ourselves into thinking we can "solve the problem" of predicting who will kill before he does it. We can't even figure out what happened at a crime scene AFTER it happened.
Grief and (mistaken) reactions after such a horrendous crime, are understandable. But that doesn't make them any more right, or the "solutions" any more practicable or just.
Maybe psychologists and therapists can decide who has the violent tendency, and put their patients' names in the national data base. This will make it at least a little bit harder for the severely mentally ill to obtain firearms legally.
Everyone has violent tendiencies under the right conditions.
Not to mention that the worst mass killings aren't committed by guns. Explosives and fire are far more lethal.
If we take away guns, they'll just find another way. It's not about guns. It's about the mentally ill.
The reason I like this video is because one person said, "we know we cannot blame the law enforcement, guns, or mental health care facilities, but we need to start do something."
Under the states refusal to do so. I'm aware Virginia is in it and has been since 07 after the VA tech shootings, and we aren't known to be high in crime as a state compared to Maryland, which has one of the strictest gun laws in the country.
Yes many states are not addressing the issue so where are the NRA lawyers and lobbyists, this is an important gun safety issue.
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