"America does not have a gun problem..."

 
 
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Gun violence is caused by guns. More specifically, the glorification of these tools as part of the very prevalent American gun culture, their extreme availability to the general public and the extraordinarily high rates of private gun ownership.
So, since you say that none of those single factors are responsible for gun violence, wouldn't it make more sense that a variety of factors are responsible for the violence and the gun is just used to express it? I really don't see how guns being a prominent part of the country's culture is to blame for the violence, how could the gun be the root of the problem?


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The biggest problem in the US is that we always want one thing to solve all of our problems. And the truth is, these aren't problems that can just be fixed with a couple of laws; it requires understanding that they are complicated issues that require a lot of changes, not only in legislature, but also society itself.


 
 
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Yeah despite the soaring murder rate committed with firearms and a school being shot up every week, the Republicunts don't care. So long as people are purchasing guns and the NRA continues making a profit, everything is fine in their eyes.

Honestly, I think guns should just be banned outright. I don't think gun control will do much good as it's far too easy for the mentally ill/deranged to get their hands on a gun now. Either guns will be banned altogether or guns will remain untouched. I honestly don't think a middle ground can be achieved here in America's case. I don't think gun crime will ever go away completely but I do believe it will go down drastically if guns were restricted. Just my two cents anyway.


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Oh, no "more guns = less crime" horseshit?


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Oh, no "more guns = less crime" horseshit?
Gun ownership rates have been declining
Mass shootings have been going up

Checkmate, Dustin.


 
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Oh, no "more guns = less crime" horseshit?
Gun ownership rates have been declining
Mass shootings have been going up

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Less than 3% to 5% of all US crimes involve people with mental illness, and the percentages of those crimes actually involving guns is lower than the national average of these crimes commited by people without a mental illness.
I call bullshit; something like half of the prisoners in the US (or globally) have ASPD.


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Uh, yeah, like, pumping more money into mental health isn't going to solve the problem that you can't force people to seek help, and that some folks like Seung-Hui Cho or James Holmes are loners who aren't going to have someone else report or refer them to mental health services. And they're sure as hell not going to think "hey, I'm not doing so well, I should seek help." If they cared about their own safety or that of others, or were able to do so, they would not have done what they did.

And making 'more beds' in psych wards is only going to put more pressure on an already overburdened health care industry (more spending isn't going to solve the problem of simply lacking enough manpower as is), and probably result in frivolous diagnoses, similarly to the prison industry and mass incarceration, because some places are only in it for the money, and more occupied beds = more profits.

Less than 3% to 5% of all US crimes involve people with mental illness, and the percentages of those crimes actually involving guns is lower than the national average of these crimes commited by people without a mental illness.
I call bullshit; something like half of the prisoners in the US (or globally) have ASPD.
Erm, got a source for that? I'm inclined to believe that the US' ginormous incarceration rate might make that untrue, but don't quote me on that, figuratively speaking.
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My own thoughts:

Uh, yeah, like, pumping more money into mental health isn't going to solve the problem that you can't force people to seek help, and that some folks like Seung-Hui Cho or James Holmes are loners who aren't going to have someone else report or refer them to mental health services. And they're sure as hell not going to think "hey, I'm not doing so well, I should seek help." If they cared about their own safety or that of others, or were able to do so, they would not have done what they did.

And making 'more beds' in psych wards is only going to put more pressure on an already overburdened health care industry (more spending isn't going to solve the problem of simply lacking enough manpower as is), and probably result in frivolous diagnoses similar to the prison industry and mass incarceration, because some places are only in it for the money, and more occupied beds = more profits.

Less than 3% to 5% of all US crimes involve people with mental illness, and the percentages of those crimes actually involving guns is lower than the national average of these crimes commited by people without a mental illness.
I call bullshit; something like half of the prisoners in the US (or globally) have ASPD.
Erm, got a source for that? I'm inclined to believe that the US' ginormous incarceration rate might make that untrue, but don't quote me on that, figuratively speaking.
Seena Fazel and John Danesh released a study in 2002 on it:
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62 surveys from 12 countries included 22 790 prisoners (mean age 29 years, 18 530 [81%] men, 2568 [26%] of 9776 were violent offenders). 3·7% of men (95% CI 3·3–4·1) had psychotic illnesses, 10% (9–11) major depression, and 65% (61–68) a personality disorder, including 47% (46–48) with antisocial personality disorder. 4·0% of women (3·2–5·1) had psychotic illnesses, 12% (11–14) major depression, and 42% (38–45) a personality disorder, including 21% (19–23) with antisocial personality disorder. Although there was substantial heterogeneity among studies (especially for antisocial personality disorder), only a small proportion was explained by differences in prevalence rates between detainees and sentenced inmates. Prisoners were several times more likely to have psychosis and major depression, and about ten times more likely to have antisocial personality disorder, than the general population.

This is due in no small part to deinstitutionalization in the US; instead of ending up in a psych ward, most people with severe mental illness end up homeless or in jail.


 
 
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Why should I have to pay for other peoples hospital bills if I haven't been in a hospital since my child was born?

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I don't have to pay for other peoples guns.

Why should I have to pay for other peoples hospital bills if I haven't been in a hospital since my child was born?

Socialism is retarded.
It's literally like car insurance you idiot. You have to pay a penalty if you don't have insurance for your car. It's a simple tax that provides a right for everyone. Stop buying into people who are behind literally the rest of the developed world.
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I don't have to pay for other peoples guns.

Why should I have to pay for other peoples hospital bills if I haven't been in a hospital since my child was born?

Socialism is retarded.
It's literally like car insurance you idiot. You have to pay a penalty if you don't have insurance for your car. It's a simple tax that provides a right for everyone. Stop buying into people who are behind literally the rest of the developed world.
"europeans are doing it, so we should too!"
"Other people have developed a successful system, so we should too!"


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I don't have to pay for other peoples guns.

Why should I have to pay for other peoples hospital bills if I haven't been in a hospital since my child was born?

Socialism is retarded.
It's literally like car insurance you idiot. You have to pay a penalty if you don't have insurance for your car. It's a simple tax that provides a right for everyone. Stop buying into people who are behind literally the rest of the developed world.
"europeans are doing it, so we should too!"
"Other people have developed a successful system, so we should too!"
To be fair America has some distinct problems from Europe, specifically gang culture and the criminality the drug war has produced.


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I don't have to pay for other peoples guns.

Why should I have to pay for other peoples hospital bills if I haven't been in a hospital since my child was born?

Socialism is retarded.
It's literally like car insurance you idiot. You have to pay a penalty if you don't have insurance for your car. It's a simple tax that provides a right for everyone. Stop buying into people who are behind literally the rest of the developed world.
"europeans are doing it, so we should too!"
"Other people have developed a successful system, so we should too!"
To be fair America has some distinct problems from Europe, specifically gang culture and the criminality the drug war has produced.
And this has nothing to do with implementing universal healthcare


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I don't have to pay for other peoples guns.

Why should I have to pay for other peoples hospital bills if I haven't been in a hospital since my child was born?

Socialism is retarded.
It's literally like car insurance you idiot. You have to pay a penalty if you don't have insurance for your car. It's a simple tax that provides a right for everyone. Stop buying into people who are behind literally the rest of the developed world.
"europeans are doing it, so we should too!"
"Other people have developed a successful system, so we should too!"
To be fair America has some distinct problems from Europe, specifically gang culture and the criminality the drug war has produced.
And this has nothing to do with implementing universal healthcare
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I don't have to pay for other peoples guns.

Why should I have to pay for other peoples hospital bills if I haven't been in a hospital since my child was born?

Socialism is retarded.
It's literally like car insurance you idiot. You have to pay a penalty if you don't have insurance for your car. It's a simple tax that provides a right for everyone. Stop buying into people who are behind literally the rest of the developed world.
"europeans are doing it, so we should too!"
"Other people have developed a successful system, so we should too!"
The NHS is only successful in displaying its own inefficiency.


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