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How about free Healthcare so all people have access to free mental health and therapy.
Raising education and putting money into bad area and just generally increasing educational standards
How about free Healthcare so all people have access to free mental health and therapy.
Thats a dishonest framing, lowman. You have to lie on a federal application (felony) that gets submitted to the FBI.If we didnt insist upon making it incredibly easy for people with mental health issues to get firearms, then they wouldnt be able to do mass shooting like this. When you dont want to put restrictions on firearm sales and you dont want to spend money on mental health, you get our current situation.
Nothing says you have a problem in your country like the need to fortify schools.
I oppose gun control in almost any form but I'm not so insane that I can pretend that a problem doesn't exist. Gang shootings, crime related killings -- they are awful but they are also predictable and a consequence of the lifestyle choices made by criminals. The killing of random people just to kill random people is a problem separate and apart from that.
And while fortifying schools might be the only solution that people can all get behind, that would be a pretty large admission of a problem we can't control
You're talking about domestic defence in the same breath as foreign defence.
You're not in a civil war.
This is not normal.
The Middle East is not full of born again ChristiansSure... Look at the Middle East. It's worked well for a few thousand years.
The Middle East is not full of born again Christians
Bud, back ground checks arent even required for private sales in most states.Thats a dishonest framing, lowman. You have to lie on a federal application (felony) that gets submitted to the FBI.
You can thank the ACLU for the FBI not being able to access health records without a warrant.
Not saying I disagree with the ACLU’s position, because it is constitutionally sound. But people with mental health issues that legally purchase a firearm committed a federal crime in the process.
Let me say something that's not said often. It's not mental health. It's not entirely guns. It's cultural. The American culture itself breeds this., reinforces it, etc. Gun culture, like it or not, is a big part of American culture and gun violence is too. American culture presents the gun as the tool of self-expression. Our shooters aren't just crazy people off their meds. They're normal people with social grievances and the gun is how they express those grievances.
For popular culture examples, you can look at the Western movie genre where both the hero and the villian use the gun as tool for achieving their ends. Whether its terrorizing others or restoring justice and protecting peace -- the gun is how it is achieved. Michael Douglas' famous film "Falling Down" fleshed out the powerless man who exercises control over his environment through his gun. Those aren't the only or even the best examples, they're just the first that comes to my mind. We can look to gangster rap music which outsells most other genres or we can look at old school country music. It's pretty much everywhere.
Talk to foreigners and you frequently hear some variation of this "I don't get Americans. You won't let your kids see 2 adults kiss but you'll let them watch one man shoot another."
It's a culture of violence, most of it gun violence. And so long as we embrace and glorify that culture, none of the other issues matter. Mental health doesn't matter, gun control doesn't matter. The culture is the real issue and very few people are actually talking about it.
No, I’m talking about 40 billion dollars in aid to Ukraine in response to the conversation that infrastructure would be costly to secure schools.
0.2% Christian
What do you mean?Born again Christians aren't going to do shit like the Middle East.
My bad5% Christian.
Learn to read your own source.
It's 0.2% Ibadi.
What do you mean?