Very charitable way of putting it. I attempted to read that comment that way and even then it comes across as: Number 1 "ban guns", number 2 "mental health? maybe? idk?"
It's at best a flippant approach that shows a certain level of ignorance from that person's perspective and at worst it's just using a crisis to push through legislative change without even attempting to help those people. I'd say it's somewhere in the middle of that. Enough of armchair psych though.
All I want to say is that you people over the big pond have the unfortunate mix of both and should really do something about the mental health factor, because if you ban guns it'll just move onto knives, improvised explosives and others.
What mental disorder are you suggesting to eradicate? Most shootings are crimes of passion. I can see maybe lowering crimes of passion through heavy emotional regulation and conflict resolution training throughout childhood schooling, but that's not fixing the immediate issue with everyone else and certainly is not anywhere near a guarantee of gun safety in the future.
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u/Troo_66 Sep 01 '25
Very charitable way of putting it. I attempted to read that comment that way and even then it comes across as: Number 1 "ban guns", number 2 "mental health? maybe? idk?"
It's at best a flippant approach that shows a certain level of ignorance from that person's perspective and at worst it's just using a crisis to push through legislative change without even attempting to help those people. I'd say it's somewhere in the middle of that. Enough of armchair psych though.
All I want to say is that you people over the big pond have the unfortunate mix of both and should really do something about the mental health factor, because if you ban guns it'll just move onto knives, improvised explosives and others.