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."
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."
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.
This man is brilliant?
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It’s time to start? Where the hell were you ages ago? Trembling from your gun crazy gramma?
Start with GOP cuts to mental health care.
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.
JFK Jr. will fix those brain broblems!
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!
So he supports universal healthcare then? Keeping guns out of the hands of people who are mentally ill? (Which would be all of MAGA.)
GUNS!
Gun crisis! Period!
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Just spitballing here, but maybe it has *something* to do with the availability of firearms.
Well, that’s easy JD: guns! It’s always the guns, pumpkin.
Other countries have mentally ill people too
Yet President just signed a bill today removing mental health checklist for owning a firearm.
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.
What about the ease that Al type weapons ca be bought so easily.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Mental illness + guns = mass death situations
The only mental health crisis we have is in the trump administration
Well ain't he the sharp one?
Rfkjr has the answers.
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?
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.
Capital punishment is part of the toxic mix that has created a very sick country.
People with “mental health crisis” shouldn’t be able to obtain weapons of war
It is about access to guns.
Availability of guns in the US. It is now okay to shoot kids??? 🤬
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?
He is an Ahole
First explain why no other country has mental health issues leading to mass shootings. Surely it isn't their gun control laws.
Oh ffs
Blame anything but the guns, JD. 🙄
I agree, America has a lot of people suffering from mental health issues, but most of them are working in the White House
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…..
Jizz Dumpster is a mental health crisis
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 🪟🔫🧍♂️
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?
Yep, it's a mental health crisis. Magas are f*cking crazy. And evil.
um, guns is at the heart of mass shootings….
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?
Even if that is true, Republicans won’t fund mental health initiatives.
It’s called availability of guns moron
It’s the guns James Donald Bowman, always has been, always will be.
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 ...
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.
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?
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.
He would definitely know about mental health issues
The mental health crisis belongs to the regime destroying our country.
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.
As he supports cuts to Medicaid for working age young men so they cannot access mental health care.
He IS a mental health crisis.
The mental health crisis is the fact that people think the words in the second amendment, "well regulated" do not ACTUALLY mean WELL REGULATED.
.... MILITIA .... 'A WELL REGULATED MILITIA '.... NOT THESE IDIOT MORONS ...
.... NEEDING OR WANTING TO OWN A GUN IS THE FIRST INDICATION OF .... A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS.
Republicans make everyone crazy so to manufacture scapegoats. Prove me wrong. 👇
Ok. Republicans said it was mental health issues 20 years ago. So what have they done?
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.
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Do they talk to each other ?
Vance wouldn’t know a mental health crisis, if he looked one in the mirror. 🖕😑🖕