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Originally Posted by DuffMan
I'm getting kind of sick of the "It's not a gun issue, it's a mental health issue" argument. It's become a copout.
How do you propose to fix the people with mental issues can get guns very easily dilemma? Maybe go back to the good old days where babies were eliminated when the showed signs of being defective?
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How is it a copout? As it has been pointed out in this thread, 20% of people in the US have mental health problems. Given the healthcare situation down there, its not that crazy to assume that many of them don't receive proper care. Like I said, before the shooting, the shooter was just someone who really needed help. Now people are ignoring that because of what he did. And yet the fact still is that he was obviously really disturbed. And there were signs of it too.
Obviously people with mental health issues shouldn't own guns or have access to them of any kind. But you can't restrict that access if you don't offer mental healthcare, and educational resources of any kind.
I'm for better gun control if it makes sense. Sadly, my guess is most people want outright bans, and that will never work.