How is that the real problem? People with mental health disorders have no obligation to get checked out and have access to guns.
Because if it weren't for the mental health issues, access to guns wouldn't be an issue at all.
Yeah but if you have some mental illnes and easy access to guns = recipe for a disaster
I don't disagree with that, but people need to look at the bigger picture, 300,000,000 Americans, (actually a lot more than that) and only 11,000 gun related homicides a year. Most of those, gang related where thug A shoots thug B.
I know this is cliche, but freedom isn't free. Taking guns away from the general population and leaving them only in the hands of the Government, is potentially saving 11,000 lives a year worth giving up an essential American freedom? Cars kill around 50,000 people a year. 5 times what guns kill, yet no one is trying to ban those, pools also kill more children a year than guns do. Yet not a beep from anyone.
Lol, that's not even coming close to factoring obesity deaths, alcohol deaths, cancer, etc
The only reason 11,000 deaths are huge in the media, is because obesity death BORING. Cancer? boring. Drunk accident? Boring. Gun death? Omg fucking scary, let me virtue signal by attacking millions of legal law abiding gun owners rights so we can save 11,000 deaths a year (mostly between criminals) even though there's many MANY more deadly things out there that need our attention.