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I’m skeptical of the idea that this can mostly be boiled down to mental health (or at least that mental health reform alone is a valid fix) and not social issues. Mental health is certainly a component, but if we actually listen to psychologists they’ve been saying that the massive amount of news around shootings makes further shootings more likely. There’s also no diagnosis or mental illness attributable to the majority of mass shooters to treat to begin with.

Using the Kirk shooter as an example, according to his friends he was incredibly deep into channer-style irony poisoning. What is therapy supposed to do to fix that? You can’t therapy someone into better mental health if they don’t want it.

Not trying to jump down your throat or anything, this is just one of my regular soap boxes.

The APA has repeatedly claimed that mental health is not a major factor in mass shootings.

I don't think "mental healthcare" is a silver bullet (pun intended) to fix the problems. That's not going to fix the consolidation of power and wealth. That's not going to get people shorter work weeks, and more quality time with friends and family. That's not going to break up the media megaliths that profit from anger inducing feeds.

Health care will help, but the problem is conservatism and it's shitty brother capitalism.

The only gun control which could pass is making it impossible for LGBTQ people and Democrat voters from accessing them.

Like anyone will rise up against the fascists. Most of the gun enthusiasts are siding with them.

That's going to be the norm for this administration. The only thing that "matters" is the very first thing to be said. All the media blindly run with it and the Reich wing media won't do a correction later on if it's proven to be otherwise.

More specifically Christian Nationalists.

Closer to 97 iirc

I mean, tbh, we have over 600,000,000 guns and trillions of rounds of ammo in ~45% of the pop's hands, no registry to know who/where those are, and at those numbers we're a larger "force" (no organization) with more guns and ammo than most of the world's militaries combined (and larger/more than ours "alone," well, combined with our police actually). Sure they have the fancy toys, but..

You'd have to go door by door and search literally every house AND somehow make sure the people to be searched don't stash shit before you get there with someone who has been searched, and you'd have to get them all (not miss one hidden in floorboards), AND you'd have to restrict home depot purchases going forward, AND somehow not get smoked by a "cold dead fingers" ass motherfucker, all so we can make sure our totally not fascist government is the only one possessing arms.

Good fucking luck. Even if someone could which is a big if, idk if they should considering that last bit.

As an American...

I would love to. Please get me the fuck out of here!

Nah, every school shooter have been defaulting as Muslim since forever and more recently trans, until it was found that, once again, it's a cis white boy.

Listen. Nobody is releasing those files ever. Either because the Republicans over played their hands and realised actually there is nothing really here.

Or it’s bi-partisan and the party not in power will shout about it until they get in power and then go quiet.

I lean towards number 1, based on Occam’s Razor.

Trump just had a meeting with all the generals in the military which has never happened in modern times. We are in full blown dictatorship now and he’s doing military loyalty tests.

The recent shooter of Charlie Kirk didn't write any manifesto or anything like Luigi Magione. Both had massive impacts and people are just waiting for this shooter to tell them what to be angry and do something about it, but in reality it'll just confirm what they think but most won't do a single thing to act on these manifesto. I believe people should actually act in their own little way to make things better. Be that what you dedicate towards, form community with others. Create social networks of caring about the people near to you. Volunteer in events, participate in organizing.

There has to be more than just anger that boils till the water evaporates.