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In reply to the discussion: Mentally ill people.. [View all]liberalmike27
(2,479 posts)Killed and mauled beyond recognition, perhaps she had them to defend herself against the kid.
Still not sure what you expect to happen? Is it a house to house search, then confiscation of all guns? Will we compensate for the value to homes? That's going to be a bundle. Perhaps put all people who own them through a psych test.
And any suggestion, any whiff of this will end up getting almost any democrat, in any state, unelected. So it won't happen anyway. To me, there is no real solution. Random shootings will never move republicans to gun control, so we're sadly stuck in this place, with no real solution.
Personally I think many of these shootings, even the mental health aspect, can be boiled down to economics, too much going to the rich, as to not be able to handle free care or some kind of care for mentally problematic people in society. There should be no financial bars to treatment for these people.
How can we spend 700 Billion on defense, yet we've got this kind of thing happening within our own, flawed society, over, and over, almost weekly?