re: #239 Great White Snark

Would anyone like to address my point made to Skip and Klys? Why when it’s a knife, a car, a club or poison we accept the idea that the mental state of the person, a lack of treatment may have contributed but so many want to reject that when it’s a gun?

Why do so many conservatives only care about mental health treatment when guns are used for the crime?

Seriously, it comes across as an excuse seeking to distract from the accessibility of guns in this country. Coupled with how easy it is to kill people, potentially in large numbers using a gun, along with the fact that it turns out the kind of “mentally ill” people who do this sort of things are generally not the ones picked up by the kind of standard you want to use (a point made by the lawsuit you posted last month) - no, I can’t imagine why people would be focusing on the weapon used and the fact that no one wants to do anything about that accessibility. Meanwhile the handwringing will continue over mental health - ignoring the part where any kind of reporting system is seen by many gun owners as a “chilling effect” because they might lose their guns - and nothing will actually be done because it’s all lip service to try and distract from the fact that other countries don’t have this problem on a regular basis, even when they don’t have fantastic mental health programs.