re: #2 JRCMYP

The difficulty here is that better mental health access is, as you say, a serious issue and worthy of discussion. It is a *separate* issue, however, from gun control and regulation. Since, as you say, there are now 290 million (holy hell) guns in the US, guns and gun violence has become a public health issue, not a mental health issue.

It’s an issue that is easy to bandaid (more access) but ignores that you can’t force people to take advantage of that access. You open more clinics and provide easier access, you’ll still have a society that says mental illness is “overdiagnosed” and that psychiatrists are quacks who answer every “illness” with a pill rather than a solution. That even if you get a person on medication, you can’t force them to take it every day.