“It’s not a gun issue. It’s a mental health issue.” Fine. Let’s start requiring a mental health evaluation before any gun purchase.
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aug 30, 2025, 8:18 pm • 5 1 • view
THIS!!!!! All countries have people with mental health issues. America is probably the only country experiencing mass shootings regularly though. Explain that one. 🤔
aug 31, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
What if we didn't do abliesm and eugenics and instead got rid of the Nazis? Cause it's a Nazi problem.
aug 31, 2025, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
There are federal laws in place but like most laws they are only good if they’re enforced. If you have been committed to a mental health facility by court order or deemed a danger to yourself or others by a court order, you can’t buy a gun. State laws are stricter but again, only good if enforced.
aug 30, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Hmm, I don't like this idea, simply because they could deny people who aren't dangerous by twisted logic. I've had bad experiences with mental health professionals who tried to say that my spiritual beliefs were psychosis.
aug 31, 2025, 4:18 am • 1 0 • view
A person who thinks they need a gun may or may not be mentally ill, and they may or may not be right, but they are a danger to anyone close to them regardless.
aug 30, 2025, 10:26 pm • 2 0 • view
unless they save your life - this country without guns would still be paying taxes on our tea and bowing to the king we have nuclear weapons because why? we want to kill millions? or we don't want to be irradiated ourselves?
aug 31, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
We don’t have mental health issues in the U.S. That is why care for such things is difficult to come by unless you have great insurance. Otherwise, it is too costly for many people to get treated, or at least evaluated.
aug 30, 2025, 10:50 pm • 0 0 • view
None of the Republicans would pass.
aug 31, 2025, 12:22 am • 2 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 4:12 am • 1 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 2:29 am • 4 0 • view
Good idea. Tho "mental health issue" is just a distraction GOP propagandists use to pretend they want to address gun violence. They consistently vote against funding for mental health. Of course most ppl DK that bc most media are Right Wing & only give a RW view. upine.medium.com/the-vast-rea...
aug 31, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Take away the mental health issues > no more shootings. Take away the guns > no more shootings. Yet they choose neither. Right to life? Not.
aug 31, 2025, 2:17 am • 3 0 • view
Let's start *providing mental healthcare*.
aug 30, 2025, 9:31 pm • 5 0 • view
that's a thought instead of taking away my rights fix the problem? you must be canadian or something else cuz I don't think you are murikkan
aug 31, 2025, 9:01 pm • 0 0 • view
So, you're cool with paying to provide mental healthcare for everyone? Because that makes me think *you're* Canadian.
aug 31, 2025, 11:11 pm • 0 0 • view
And if they voted for Trump, they're by definition not of sound mind...
aug 31, 2025, 8:45 pm • 0 0 • view
And funding goddamn mental healthcare.
aug 31, 2025, 9:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Too many adults today have the impulse control of children. In the military, the drill sergeant gets in your face and teaches you the impulse control of an adult. That's important. That's how the military only arms minimally thick-skinned adults. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
aug 31, 2025, 4:15 am • 0 0 • view
On any ordinary day I’d agree… but where we are right now; let’s not pull that trigger yet.
aug 30, 2025, 8:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Bad pun - 😏 but I get your point - because the current government would classify all those not aligned with their agenda(s) as crazy which could criminalize everyone and everything they own that could possibly be deemed a weapon.
aug 30, 2025, 8:45 pm • 1 0 • view
With the point you're believing in cosmic rights dictator fairy a red flag on mental health?
aug 30, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
My only concern is that it would identify too many mental health issues; we already have an insufficient number of professionals. This pours kerosene on the fire.
aug 31, 2025, 2:13 am • 1 0 • view
How about we have mental health classes starting in middle school?
aug 31, 2025, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
"But ... but most mental health professionala are woke and biased!"
aug 30, 2025, 11:38 pm • 3 0 • view
Aw, thank you
aug 31, 2025, 1:43 am • 1 0 • view
Except that a lot of violent people are socio/psychopaths that can elude psychiatry.
aug 31, 2025, 11:41 am • 0 0 • view
Ok. What happens if a perfectly healthy person has a mental breakdown? Or an episode or whatever? They still have access to guns
aug 30, 2025, 8:10 pm • 8 0 • view
Sober people have fatal car crashes. We don't give up on making driving impaired illegal. No regulation is perfect. Rational gun regulation would save lives. Not every life, but we could significantly reduce deaths.
aug 30, 2025, 9:17 pm • 2 1 • view
In Canada, we have strict gun laws. Everyone is safer
aug 30, 2025, 9:51 pm • 5 1 • view
These lunatics will never ket go of the gun fetish. It's sick. But we have to stop Molly coddling this bullshit and get rid of some weapons, screen owners, impose insurance & accountability regulation.
aug 30, 2025, 9:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Then require a yearly evaluation.
aug 30, 2025, 8:13 pm • 6 0 • view
There are generally signs of a “perfectly healthy person” having issues. They are small, bit they are there. You never know what is really going on within a person’s mind. There are healthy people who die from an undiagnosed disorder, die from a heart attack after having a perfect physical exam.
aug 30, 2025, 9:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Can we say that’s it’s both? Trump just removed all of those protections that were put in. He wants violence. 😠
aug 30, 2025, 10:27 pm • 4 0 • view
That’s supposed to be with every background check before approval. They’re dropping the ball on this process
aug 31, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Every republican voted against Mental Health Services.
aug 31, 2025, 2:29 am • 1 0 • view
You might very well think that, but I could not possibly comment.
aug 31, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
My son used the mental health bs line with me. It didn't go the way he had hoped.
aug 31, 2025, 8:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Or accepting any elected office
aug 31, 2025, 8:42 pm • 0 0 • view
1 in 4 adults have a diagnosable mental illness.
aug 30, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Perfect
aug 30, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
But wasn’t mental healthcare just cut by the republicans?
aug 31, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep. Anywhere with that many guns sure does have mental health issues!
aug 30, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Would cut down on WAY 2 MANY SALES
aug 31, 2025, 8:51 pm • 0 0 • view
the us stockpiles more nuclear weapons than anyone else the same reason as guns in our homes deterrence
aug 31, 2025, 9:06 pm • 0 0 • view
there aren't enough professionals either most will pass - you aren't focusing on the people with the issues punish the wicked leave the rest of us alone
aug 31, 2025, 9:01 pm • 0 0 • view
And yet, Republicans voted to cut mental health spending. www.npr.org/2025/03/27/n...
aug 30, 2025, 8:08 pm • 8 1 • view
sep 1, 2025, 2:18 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, giving guns to mentally unstable people doesn't seem like a real good idea. (Start at 2:15) youtu.be/LjQTZdNjoVo
aug 30, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 8:26 pm • 0 0 • view
It sounds so simple doesn’t it
aug 30, 2025, 11:22 pm • 1 0 • view