Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 8:08 am
Coming to a town near you, or your town. It's not a question of the size or location of the city or town; it is a question of a mentally ill person's access to weapons...in a country in which access to weapons is essentially unhindered. Lewiston is a town of about 34,000, includes Bates College. Over 20 dead and 60 injured are numbers that will reverberate in nearly every home there. The Second Amendment has been overrun any kind of balance against the right to just go bowling, go to church, the movies, Walmart, high school, college, the workplace. What on earth is wrong with us?
Not picking a fight here. Just exercising more futility. Is your deduction that b/c we have so many mentally ill people in the world that we do not know what to do with them, then we should abolish all firearms? It really comes down to that decision, then if you want to build back out from there, you have to pick and choose how to maintain & balance the two equations.
Identifying, treating, and following up with the mentally ill infringes on so many more personal rights, far outweighing the simple 2A infringement discussions. Follow that up with simple mental health definitions of trauma, where personal trauma is received in our brains the very same way in each of us, regardless of significance, how we respond is then uniquely different in each of us. Some want vengeance, another may simply grieve and forgive, and another may laugh it off. As an aside, I spend a great deal of time listening to podcasts on psychology, philosophy, and the life of military operators. And what I have come to learn is that there are upwards of 50 military suicides/day, compared to ~130 total for the entire US. And when you listen to many of these ex-military folks speak, there is very little mental support given to them during their time serving, and essentially none upon separation....other than written prescriptions which often exacerbates the problem. There are now many non-profits of ex-military folks offering these services on their own to support vets....as the VA just pushes pills.
Full circle, how do we help the mentally ill in our country?