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NBC News @nbcnews.com

Vice President JD Vance said that it's time to start asking tough questions about what's at the heart of mass shootings and appeared to connect the violence to what he called a "mental health crisis."

aug 29, 2025, 2:33 am • 33 9

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Ironroamer 🇨🇦 @ironroamer.bsky.social

Having viewed US leadership over the past 8 months, I now agree that the US has a mental health crisis 20 times greater than any other country in the world.

aug 29, 2025, 2:42 am • 3 0 • view
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Bobbie Philipsborn @bobbielovesmickey.bsky.social

This man is brilliant?

aug 29, 2025, 10:08 am • 0 0 • view
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Sarah Thurmond @sarahthurmond.bsky.social

strickland.house.gov/2025/07/31/s...

aug 29, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 0 • view
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Amanda Dumas 🏳️‍🌈 @cup-o-coffee.bsky.social

It’s time to start? Where the hell were you ages ago? Trembling from your gun crazy gramma?

aug 29, 2025, 5:17 am • 0 0 • view
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Steelhead @clearcreek.bsky.social

Start with GOP cuts to mental health care.

aug 29, 2025, 4:44 am • 2 0 • view
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cdpositive @cdpositive.bsky.social

Before seat belts we had thousands more deaths from car accidents. How much "study" would JD need to figure out why those numbers went down? Suggestion; How about we regulate guns & see what happens? JD can "study" the reduction in gun deaths after it happens.

aug 29, 2025, 2:45 am • 7 2 • view
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OUI-YES-NON-MERCI! // YES-NO ?? @non-merci.bsky.social

JFK Jr. will fix those brain broblems!

aug 29, 2025, 2:42 am • 0 0 • view
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richseav-ftl.bsky.social @richseav-ftl.bsky.social

Maybe it’s a crisis related to promoting and celebrating violence to solve differences. Remember tRump’s insurrection / coup … and, of course that HUGE military parade on his b’day. Might .. let’s fight!

aug 29, 2025, 2:40 am • 6 1 • view
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DeeLeee @deeleee.bsky.social

So he supports universal healthcare then? Keeping guns out of the hands of people who are mentally ill? (Which would be all of MAGA.)

aug 29, 2025, 3:14 am • 2 0 • view
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Witchygrandma @witchygrandma1.bsky.social

GUNS!

aug 29, 2025, 2:51 am • 0 0 • view
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derwun.bsky.social @derwun.bsky.social

Gun crisis! Period!

aug 29, 2025, 3:13 am • 0 0 • view
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John Stofko @johnlukisstofko.bsky.social

Couch Fucker

aug 29, 2025, 3:50 am • 1 1 • view
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ImagineBGP @bearku.bsky.social

Just spitballing here, but maybe it has *something* to do with the availability of firearms.

aug 29, 2025, 2:36 am • 10 0 • view
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Lonny Fennis @lonnyfennis.bsky.social

Well, that’s easy JD: guns! It’s always the guns, pumpkin.

aug 29, 2025, 6:49 am • 0 0 • view
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Edwin 🇨🇦 @shirtdisturber.bsky.social

Other countries have mentally ill people too

aug 29, 2025, 2:36 am • 10 0 • view
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🇺🇦 Kelina 🇪🇭 @kelina727.bsky.social

Yet President just signed a bill today removing mental health checklist for owning a firearm.

aug 29, 2025, 2:37 am • 5 1 • view
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Trans Sharia Orchestra @moose13.bsky.social

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Glory Glory @gloryhallelujah.bsky.social

Of course, it's a well-known fact that people in the US are the only humans on earth that suffer from mental health issues.

aug 29, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lee Barnhart @lebt.bsky.social

What about the ease that Al type weapons ca be bought so easily.

aug 29, 2025, 3:07 am • 0 0 • view
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sdardh.bsky.social @sdardh.bsky.social

Which if we have gun laws that include mental health screenings we would not be having mentally ill individuals buying weapons. See the problem J Dunce?

aug 29, 2025, 2:49 am • 3 1 • view
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melonvelvet.bsky.social @melonvelvet.bsky.social

It's both. Lack of meaningful help for mental health issues and easy access to deadly weapons. Horrid mix. Devastating. Nothing gets done about any of it. Horrid.

aug 29, 2025, 2:42 am • 1 1 • view
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paulineward.bsky.social @paulineward.bsky.social

I've spent years in Social Services. Sure, expanding mental health services sounds great, but how do you get crazy people to participate? You think gun nuts acknowledge that they are nuts? You could co-locate free mental health services in every Starbucks, but mentally ill people would not go in.

aug 29, 2025, 5:26 am • 0 0 • view
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Chronoss Chiron @chronosschiron.bsky.social

there is no vp jd vance there is only COUCH OVERLORD

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aug 29, 2025, 3:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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thediggler.bsky.social @thediggler.bsky.social

Is he serious? Reagan closed asylums & gutted mental health; Trump’s slashing billions & rolling back protections. But sure, look at 'mental health' & your party’s role—just don’t forget it’s still damn easy to get military-grade guns, another product of your party.

aug 29, 2025, 2:59 am • 2 2 • view
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eaglerock731.bsky.social @eaglerock731.bsky.social

Mental illness + guns = mass death situations

aug 29, 2025, 8:46 am • 0 0 • view
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mgwhiteley.bsky.social @mgwhiteley.bsky.social

The only mental health crisis we have is in the trump administration

aug 29, 2025, 3:29 am • 0 0 • view
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lizzzilu.bsky.social @lizzzilu.bsky.social

Well ain't he the sharp one?

aug 29, 2025, 2:37 am • 0 0 • view
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Nudsy aka Ian’s doodle @nudsy.bsky.social

Rfkjr has the answers.

aug 29, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social

Wow, Republican, maybe you shouldn't have the party platform of stressing absolutely everyone in the country out on all the levels you can, then trying to gaslight about it?

aug 29, 2025, 5:41 am • 1 1 • view
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Ian Fraser @ianafraser.bsky.social

Agent Orange refused to recognise the result of the 2020 election and by so doing triggered violent insurrection. Agent Orange committed an act of violence against the Constitution, democracy and the USA. Agent Orange is a hypocrite on stilts and steroids.

aug 29, 2025, 6:48 am • 0 0 • view
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Ian Fraser @ianafraser.bsky.social

Capital punishment is part of the toxic mix that has created a very sick country.

aug 29, 2025, 6:43 am • 0 0 • view
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I Am The Rougarou @the-rougarou.bsky.social

It’s just a cult and they’re all possessed.

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aug 29, 2025, 3:15 am • 1 0 • view
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joedmills2.bsky.social @joedmills2.bsky.social

People with “mental health crisis” shouldn’t be able to obtain weapons of war

aug 29, 2025, 2:37 am • 6 0 • view
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Phillip Herbert @phillipisfabulous.bsky.social

It is about access to guns.

aug 29, 2025, 10:34 am • 0 0 • view
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Phillip Herbert @phillipisfabulous.bsky.social

Availability of guns in the US. It is now okay to shoot kids??? 🤬

aug 29, 2025, 8:40 am • 0 0 • view
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ChurchLady @baltmom.bsky.social

But Bobby Brain Worm says that medications for mental health support are the problem. OOOOOHHHHH, wait wait wait, is this where the regime gets to put people deemed to be mentally unstable in camps? It is, isn't it?

aug 29, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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cronepat.bsky.social @cronepat.bsky.social

He is an Ahole

aug 29, 2025, 6:28 am • 0 0 • view
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Bailey Price @baileyprice.bsky.social

First explain why no other country has mental health issues leading to mass shootings. Surely it isn't their gun control laws.

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aug 29, 2025, 4:18 am • 0 0 • view
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MrsMoore @mrsmoore.bsky.social

Oh ffs

aug 29, 2025, 4:43 am • 0 0 • view
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Mohamed @mohamedsid.bsky.social

Blame anything but the guns, JD. 🙄

aug 29, 2025, 2:34 am • 19 1 • view
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iLoveVoting @ilovevoting.bsky.social

I agree, America has a lot of people suffering from mental health issues, but most of them are working in the White House

aug 29, 2025, 2:45 am • 5 0 • view
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RatatouilleCat @ratatouillecat.bsky.social

Can’t wait for JD’s solution. Forcing women to stay home and home school their kids, homosexual conversion therapy, banning women from voting or working, registering women’s ovaries and uteri…..

aug 29, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Tokyo Soco @slclawyer.bsky.social

Jizz Dumpster is a mental health crisis

aug 29, 2025, 3:18 am • 0 0 • view
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Saoirse @2dragons.bsky.social

Oh dear, Mr Vance, where are all the funds going to come from. Do you really believe that those powerful rich folks' friends of yours are going to cough it up to save the lives of innocent children just for you? REALLY!! **Make America Afraid of Windows** MAAW 🪟🔫🧍‍♂️

aug 29, 2025, 4:24 am • 0 0 • view
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roman-s-ca.bsky.social @roman-s-ca.bsky.social

Actually it is far beyond the time to “start asking tough questions about what’s at the heart of mass shootings” But start with this one: Is it really necessary to have more firearms in this country than people?

aug 29, 2025, 3:18 am • 2 0 • view
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Ley @hbtad.bsky.social

Yep, it's a mental health crisis. Magas are f*cking crazy. And evil.

aug 29, 2025, 2:35 am • 6 0 • view
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fstop414.bsky.social @fstop414.bsky.social

um, guns is at the heart of mass shootings….

aug 29, 2025, 2:45 am • 4 0 • view
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L. Lehmann @reader4617.bsky.social

Ever try to get mental health without insurance? Guess Vance should try that, then speak. Oh you mean it will soon be harder than it is already?

aug 29, 2025, 3:55 am • 0 0 • view
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Putins Drag Eyes @sashayshantay.bsky.social

GUNS GUNS GUNS GUNS GUNS🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫

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Bama Girl @lorelie35950.bsky.social

Even if that is true, Republicans won’t fund mental health initiatives.

aug 29, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kieran Hannon @kieranhannon.bsky.social

It’s called availability of guns moron

aug 29, 2025, 2:55 am • 3 1 • view
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Peter Fuentes @peterfuentes84.bsky.social

It’s the guns James Donald Bowman, always has been, always will be.

aug 29, 2025, 2:36 am • 0 0 • view
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Jonathan @jmcrookston.bsky.social

Blaming antidepressants for mass shootings has become a common tactic for some conservatives. In 2022, after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and the shooting at the July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Illinois, some speculate without evidence about antidepressant usen by shooters ...

aug 29, 2025, 2:38 am • 2 2 • view
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Jonathan @jmcrookston.bsky.social

A 2019 study found that most school shooters hadn't taken psychotropic medications and that when they did, “no direct or causal association was found” with the shootings.

aug 29, 2025, 2:38 am • 3 2 • view
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Susan Brooks ❌👑 @susubrooks.bsky.social

Let's assume there is a mental health crisis. What could we do immediately that would make a huge difference in mitigating mass shootings while we figure it out? Any ideas, JD?

aug 29, 2025, 4:49 am • 0 0 • view
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MDavey History Teacher @mdavey10.bsky.social

It’s kind of ironic that the GOP talks about the “crisis of mental health” after literally cutting therapy on schools and mental health treatment while ignoring the easy proximity of guns. Ironic but evil.

aug 29, 2025, 2:42 am • 20 1 • view
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45tuckfrump47 @madam-coach.bsky.social

Wake UP

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Joebug @joebug.bsky.social

He would definitely know about mental health issues

aug 29, 2025, 2:58 am • 3 0 • view
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Eliza Bennet (she/her) @cedarsalmon.bsky.social

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Adam Zones Out @theadamzone.xyz

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AVM @skyeangelwillow.bsky.social

The mental health crisis belongs to the regime destroying our country.

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edszychoski.bsky.social @edszychoski.bsky.social

From listening to your response, you really don't have any clue as to handle this, do you? Try this, for once answer a question with a direct response and solution or just admit that you don't know. You lay out the BS very deep.

aug 29, 2025, 3:45 am • 0 0 • view
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aeaiii.bsky.social @aeaiii.bsky.social

As he supports cuts to Medicaid for working age young men so they cannot access mental health care.

aug 29, 2025, 9:23 am • 0 0 • view
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Linda Maria Salerno @msmarymac60.bsky.social

He IS a mental health crisis.

aug 29, 2025, 3:48 am • 1 0 • view
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Saint Stephen @saint--stephen.bsky.social

The mental health crisis is the fact that people think the words in the second amendment, "well regulated" do not ACTUALLY mean WELL REGULATED.

aug 29, 2025, 1:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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bradfordpenny.bsky.social @bradfordpenny.bsky.social

.... MILITIA .... 'A WELL REGULATED MILITIA '.... NOT THESE IDIOT MORONS ...

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bradfordpenny.bsky.social @bradfordpenny.bsky.social

.... NEEDING OR WANTING TO OWN A GUN IS THE FIRST INDICATION OF .... A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS.

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doingit4us @gontry.bsky.social

Republicans make everyone crazy so to manufacture scapegoats. Prove me wrong. 👇

aug 29, 2025, 2:58 am • 2 0 • view
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fanciestofcats.bsky.social @fanciestofcats.bsky.social

Ok. Republicans said it was mental health issues 20 years ago. So what have they done?

aug 29, 2025, 2:38 am • 3 0 • view
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Muckraker Chronicles @muckrakerchron.bsky.social

How’s about we make sure people with mental health issues are taken care of and there were logical regulations on guns? What if we 🥁helped people 🥁⁉️ And to JD: trans people are not mentally ill but you might be though. Find (brown) Jesus.

aug 29, 2025, 2:38 am • 2 1 • view
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Ed Hirsch @edhirsch.bsky.social

JD Vance: "I convinced myself I was gay when I was a kid" www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-con...

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Ed Hirsch @edhirsch.bsky.social

JD Vance: "Trump Biographer DROPS MORE SECRETS on Trump DARK PAST" youtu.be/J6aDd40076U?...

aug 29, 2025, 2:48 am • 1 0 • view
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Godzillou 🇨🇦 @godzillou.bsky.social

Do they talk to each other ?

aug 29, 2025, 2:47 am • 2 0 • view
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pappyhowl.bsky.social @pappyhowl.bsky.social

Vance wouldn’t know a mental health crisis, if he looked one in the mirror. 🖕😑🖕

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