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[–]SoCo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We've been increasingly adding gun control, firearm restrictions, and eroding people's Constitutional rights for decades and mass violence has only increased.

Gun control proponents keep saying, "but we need just a little more gun control for it to start working." It will never work, not even with a full out ban on guns, just as it has never worked for banning drugs.

Continued gun control harping is just a flawed and thought-less non-solution, which people who can't understand the important of our core Constitutional right or find any value in the public's ability to possess firearms. Without access to firearms, the public is completely dependent of the government and society. This seems to be the focus driving many irrational polices being pushed.

We've saw with the super violent an destructive nationwide riots from BLM, anti-candidate-Trump, anti-2016-election, and then anti-2016-election-result "Day of Insurrection" riots, that firearms are not at all needed for mass destruction, injuries, or death. The only weapon needed, is incitement of collective hate by coordination of weaponized media, and some Russian disinformation.

Firearms are just a tool and removing them will not prevent acts of violence. Attempts to limit access to firearms have proven that this approach will not make acts of violence more difficult.

Instead, we should be focusing on the root causes for such extreme acts of violence. Our country's mental health services are abysmal and definitely is contributing to this. Decades of our government turning their heads the other way and cupping the balls of large polluting corporations, who have poisoned generations of our population, has contributed to an excess of mental health issues in our country. First it was lead, then it was a multitude of hormone disrupting pollution, such as micro-plastics.

All you need need is evil divide-and-conquer at all costs political campaigns and weaponized media propaganda, to trigger such a vulnerable population into self destruction.

If the government needs to take all sharp objects from you and lock you in a cage, to ensure you don't hurt people, then maybe the problem resides in why you want to hurt people, instead of the need for thicker bars and less sunlight.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Research over the last 30 years has consistently shown that diagnosable mental illness does not underlie most gun violence.

https://behavioralscientist.org/myth-mental-illness-causes-mass-shootings/

The article ends arguing for gun control, but besides that, they aren't wrong.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Doesn't mention personality disorders though.

People don't have to be insane and not in control to have mental health problems.

A guy having a criminal as a father is a very common indicator he might have a personality disorder, they are inherited 50% of the time.

And most bad behaviour is hidden in the family or relationship so unless you investigate those you won't know of there's something like a pattern of controlling behaviour or violence.

[–]emptiedriver 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I mean, isn't it both? Obviously someone will have mental problems if they'll go shoot schoolchildren, but just as obviously, they'll have a gun. We should try to do something about both. Try to provide healthcare and support to reduce mental problems, and try to regulate gun access so that people who are likely to be unstable can't get them.

What's the hold up? Do both, do whichever's easier first, no disagreement here!