There have always been folks with mental health issues

[malaise]

It's the access to guns you scumbags - it's the fucking guns killing the children. Fuck the NRA and the politicians owned by them.

EFUCKINGNOUGH!!!

[spanone]

1. K&R...

Amen.

[demmiblue]

2. Cosigned.

[oasis]

3. That's telling it like it is.

[malaise]

4. Explosive devices found at the school

and now a house is blocked off with a bomb outside. Highway Six closed.

Taking bets we have some white supremacists here.

[oasis]

8. Sarah Hucksterbee brags how Trump has dealt with ISIS. The press

should be relentless in forcing her to acknowledge (1) the rise of domestic terrorism (2) the NRA's subjugation of the GOP.

[malaise]

10. Domestic terrorists don't fit their profileYou know they're not 'animals'

They're good people.

[lark]

25. Yep, the teen was a sick trumper.

But then again, I repeat myself.

[get the red out]

5. And all over the world

Other first world countries haven't "cured mental illness", they have less access to guns.

[malaise]

6. +1,000

This has to be stopped

[billh58]

7. Second Amendment absolutists

and NRA apologists will be along shortly to gunsplain that school shootings are rare, and that the occasional gun fatality is just the price we must pay for the freedom to shoot each other, and the liberty to resist tyranny by a Liberal government.

[appalachiablue]

9. K & R. Exactly, this bloody carnage and destruction has to end!

It's devouring our people, our young and our nation's stability.

[hunter]

11. Dare we say gun fetishism is an especially deadly mental illness?

I will.

[malaise]

12. Well said

It's a serious obsession

[ooky]

13. One mental health issue that is easy to spot is

when you see someone who goes grocery shopping with his gun strapped to his side. I saw one of these idiots in the supermarket the other day. I think that people that do this are afflicted with a mental complex. I felt like telling him that the beef was already dead.

[malaise]

17. ROFL

at the dead beef

[Amishman]

14. Gun ownership is falling yet shootings are rising

The pressure cooker of modern day adolescence combined with lacking mental health care is the biggest factor.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely want safe storage laws, purchase controls, red flag laws, and raising the purchase age. These are common sense ideas even most gunners can agree to. They make us safer without the constitutional issues of taking people's property. But overall we need to look at the bigger picture of why more and more people are choosing to throw away their lives and attack others.

Our society is not well, we are stressed, pressured, and miserable. The middle class is decaying, the poor forgotten; and young adults facing a daunting uphill struggle to meet even the standard of living their parents enjoyed. We need to fix our societal and economic ills, and we will see benefits in fewer killings and less drug abuse. Give people something to live for and a helping hand to those in need, and they will be far less likely to fall into despair and lash out.

[Marthe48]

23. It seems that no matter the income of shooters or family,

they have the money to buy guns. An AR-15 costs 100's of dollars. Or more. And ammo is close to $10.00 for 20 rounds (quick Google for cheapest prices)

Also, drugs, meth supplies, and all the other crap that is destroying this country.

Our country is a war zone and nobody seems to realize it.

[ffr]

15. We are no longer a civilized nation.

WE ARE NOT A CIVILIZED NATION WHEN CHILDREN ARE SLAUGHTERED IN CLASSROOMS. THIS IS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY. #NeverAgain #GunReformNow

Link to tweet

[niyad]

16. k and r

[moondust]

18. Yes.

Even some of the MEN who wrote and passed the Second Amendment may have personally known someone with mental health issues. It probably never occurred to them that those mental cases could easily pose a deadly threat to the general public because...single-shot muskets. I'd be curious to know what the "murder by gun" rate was in 1791.

Perpetual insanity.

[LiberalArkie]

19. Wait until someone steals some uniforms from a laundry service and goes into a school.

[IronLionZion]

20. Yeah but if bad guys were really determined to get it

then let them get creative. Let's make it harder for them, not easier.

There are a very small but sensible number of gun supporters who would like to have a national permit with strict criteria for who can buy guns including mental health and stuff like DUIs and domestic violence. Of course others oppose this because they think it's a slippery slope to their wildest conspiracy theories.

[TimeSnowDemos]

21. It's... slightly more complex...

Don't get me wrong, please, hate on the NRA; they deserve it. But...

Ask yourself, how much money would YOU take to pass gun laws that killed 10s of thousands of Americans annually?

A million?

10 million?

Or, is there no amount you'd trade your soul for?

I say this, because these politicians, they're not being FORCED to take money or vote for these bills. And you WOULDN'T.

If Congress was made up of honest people, the NRA couldn't bribe them. Their main tool is money and PR. Honest people would be able to stand up to them.

And of course, kill the NRA and the NGRA or NGA will show up and replace them overnight. To protect gun manufacturer profits.

So, it's not the NRA, it's the corrupt politicians.

[renate]

22. there are people with mental health issues in every country in the world

It's kind of weird how we're the only one with mass shootings. Guess we'll never understand why they keep happening.

[eppur_se_muova]

24. Indeed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ctsu_incident

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. I know, let's do what the GOP does. There are 900 million guns in America and

600 million of them are fully automatic weapons which are capable of shooting 300 bullets in ten seconds.









Making shit up out of thin air is what they do, why cant we?