Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
The figures across western europe are all a lot lower than the US but I am not familiar with mental health care outside of the UK. It might be guessing but your problems might stem from the number of wars you take part in. A lot of our issues stem from not looking after servicemen.I suppose the UK might be different, but you did say Europe. What I said was very much accurate for France and Germany. Also, it's actually easier to get a gun in France than in the UK.Im sorry but our mental health provision has been shit for at least 30 years. Thatcher closed down most institutions and replaced it with a policy called "care in the community" which basically told folk to just make the best of it. So these poor buggers can be found in shop doorways and park benches all over Britain.It's an issue in Europe as well, but you do have better public facilities for mental health. America used to have good public facilities for mental health, but we gutted them in the 60s and 70s due to a combination of removing funding and activists against involuntary commitment.We have people with mental health issues over here. We dont have your gun slaughter though.The Fed Ex shooter’s mother called police and reported her son LAST YEAR. The problem isn’t guns. How many shooters were known to have major issues before the shooting and nothing was done? This kid was mentally unstable to the point his own mother reported him for a possible suicide by cop. Well he did it. We don’t need gun control we need idiot control. We need to pay attention and intervene with serious mental health help. Inpatient living facilities need to come back so this mother could have had him committed. Yes the outpatient is cheaper but it doesn’t serve society. We have to have a balance between constitutional rights and public safety, and we need to bring back more long term facilities because some mental health and addiction problems can’t be solved in 6 weeks.Mrs. - Dear, there was another mass shooting yesterday, 8 people were killed at a FEDEX facility
Mr. - Huh, We got a something FED EX?? Hey. There's a sale at Wal Mart! I need some new boots anyway.
No one really gives a crap about this...do they??
Mass shootings in the U.S. in 2021
NBC News defines a mass shooting as a single incident involving three or more people who have been shot in a public place, excluding the shooter.www.nbcnews.com
Why is mental health an issue in 2A America but not an issue in civilised Europe ?
Guns were easier to obtain before the 60s and yet, mass shootings were a lot less common then. So, it's not about guns. It's about a lack of proper public mental health facilities.
They are mainly harmless and ,of course, are a long way from getting hold of machine guns.