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Perhaps in the US we could make healthcare affordable to just the "non-dangerously" mentally ill first before vilifying mental illness in general. Or perhaps, w
by bezier-curve 4y ago
Perhaps in the US we could make healthcare affordable to just the "non-dangerously" mentally ill first before vilifying mental illness in general. Or perhaps, we could take a hard look at gun control laws that enable the danger instead of using mentally ill people as a scapegoat, which is what conservatives prefer to do any time there's a mass shooting.
- adventured 4y agoThe biggest gun problem in the US is urban shootings via hand guns, by a drastic margin. I'd like to see a plan for removing all the illegally owned guns from US cities. I rarely see anybody talk about how to get those off the streets. Those guns are already illegal and nobody is doing anything about it, nothing that is making a dent in the problem anyway. The murders and shootings continue just as they have for decades, accounting for the majority of US murders by gun. Half of the major US cities are war zones because of illegal hand guns, and it has nothing to do with the mentally ill and mass shootings. And yes, we should still deal with the mental illness issue around gun access and ownership simultaneously.
- tevon 4y agoThe issue here isn't guns though, sadly. Most of the violence from homeless mentally ill folks isn't gun violence. Walking around SF, I (a regular looking guy) have been accosted multiple times. Its legitimately frightening, and would be so much worse if I was elderly or disabled or otherwise unable to defend myself.