FastPace
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I wonder if this approach would work? Hmmmm, let's see, when have we tried doing this in the past? Let's substitute alcohol for guns in your sentence. Or or or! Heroin!
Like if it is a heroin problem lets ban all heroin and have all homes and properties searched for them, all heroin found confiscated, and all heroin destroyed.
We have no more heroin in the US now, right? (And that even ignores the rampant Constitutional infringements implied in your sentence).
I'm not for banning guns in the USA. I was drawing attention to the fact I doubt poster #1 is willing to go to any length to stop these shooting. And I doubt any pro-gun or anti-gun person is.
Whether we are pro-gun or anti-gun we want what we want and all else and all others be damned. It's pretty much that simple. The little children have to suffer because of us adults.
Something is wrong in American society. Society. None of this BS "individuals." The individuals are a product of the society. And neither pro-gun or ant-gun people want to address that because at the end of the day--like those addicted to heroin--we all in America revel in our sins and the sheer wickedness running rampant through the USA. Bottom line. The "mental health problem" is from a society so wicked and obtuse towards millions of suffering Americans it creates over years broken people in heart and mind.
The anti-gun people are so hooked on American evils--like a heroin addict that loves the heroin and its high feeling but hates and fears the consequences--that they want most firearms band. Some even want all firearms band. It's their community condom or community abortion.
Pro-gun people want to have guns--but also a wicked society--but and so out comes the "mental health" song and dance. Because they know they are not going to support the US Government intruding in every American's life at tax payer expense, demand psychologist check you off as okay every x number of months. So it's a song that can be sung without anything ever getting done: "The Government [or "we"] need really do solve the mental health problem in this country!" Yeah? How? All of a sudden Republicans want the Government to be taking the lead in solving health problems. All of a sudden now the US Government is responsible for every US citizen.
In even higher numbers, people are injured and killed by personal vehicles everyday in the USA. Everyday. All across the country.
So why arent we implementing your solution for that? (er, and we dont 'need' cars, not to the extent that we use them constantly here in the US. Many western nations use them much much less. It's about lifestyle choices. There are people here in the US that do make that choice, some that dont have them altogether...so if we all *really really cared* we could lower those numbers by a huge margin.
Neither here nor there. Why don't you pitch that line to the Aussies who you all go into stage acting roll before like you're really committed like they were to end mass shootings.
My comment was this in full context:
People are shot everyday in the USA. Everyday. All across the country. Are they all mentally ill? If so make it law all Americans have to undergo intense psych exams every 2 or 3 or 6 or 9 months. Make the tax payer pay. Stop BSing if you know the problem and you know solution.
So, I was asking are all these people shooting other people everyday across the USA mentally ill?
Because if they are you realize what that indicates? That there is a major epidemic of mentally ill people involved in daily gun violence in the USA unlike any other country on planet earth.
And if Americans know the problem (as opposed to not knowing the problem) and have the psychologists to solve the problem then fix the damn problem.
Ask the Aussies how they treated their mental health problem involving mass shootings? Do that. Then for the next 30 years play your "we really want to stop mass shootings and are as committed to it as you Aussies (because look... we all express sorrow and wish the families well online that must show we are as committed as you guys were) but we are waiting on our Government or anyone but us to fix our mental health problems."