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Originally Posted by Blueblaze
50 years ago when a lunatic started raving about killing people, they were sent to an asylum and got some help. Innocents were protected.
Then educated idiots everywhere decided that that it was cruel to expose a lunatic to help when he didn't ask for it. So they emptied the asylums. And almost immediately, we started suffering mass murder events.
Politicians jumped on it to do something they had always wanted to do anyway-- disarm the citizenry. So they blamed the murders on the guns that had always been around -- not the lunatics that had suddenly showed up begging for spare change on every street corner, pooping in the street, camping in public parks, raving at strangers, and committing mass murder.
This is a pure cause-and-effect issue. It is only political because politicians make it that way.
Even if Clinton's stupid AR15 ban lowered the mass murder rate 2% (which it only did if you jimmy the numbers) -- THAT'S NOT ENOUGH. The rate used to be ZERO!
The last thing we need is for some lunatic who can't get his hands on a varmint rifle to discover that the recipe for a variety of bombs is widely available on the web, and the ingredients are much cheaper than an AR15.
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The asylums were emptied out into the slums.... which is almost poetic. I believe that the asylums were emptied out to save taxpayer money for the highest bracket citizens. Mental health care is expensive if done correctly. I would like to compare how mental health treatments are handled in Sweden or Japan and the US. And also what % of GDP is dedicated to it in various countries. Mental health care costs starting at a young age could pay dividends later with an adult that is less inclined to commit crimes of gun violence and mass-murders. The cost could offset each other leaving society more stable.