re: #301 lostlakehiker

So, in this case— a highly privileged youth with a wealthy parent— how could mental health professionals have played a role?

I don’t think Obama is being dishonest, but I do think he’s co-opting the opposition position as he often does in order to not create a false conflict. Sure, mental health can obviously play a role in preventing gun violence. But the dishonesty comes from the people calling for us to focus on that rather than on guns or gun culture.

Hell, I’d say the biggest contribution mental health professionals could make is by therapizing people out of gun fetishizing.