Is having the conversation about mental illness and horrendous violent crime stigmatizing?

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29. no one is scapegoating gun owners

the fact is guns result in 70% of murders. We have the highest child murder rate and homicide rates in the industrialized world. But apparently that means nothing as long as you can play with your toys.

Also when some (a tiny fraction) of gun owners resist reasonable gun reform, you do bear responsibility in preventable homicides. 75% of NRA members believe in expanded background checks. But you feel a need to be more reactionary than 75% of a Republican organization. I just don't understand the kind of selfishness that leaves some so intransigent in the face of continued mass murders. That I blame you for.

The statistical link between murder, other homicides, and guns is clear. But you prefer to ignore the 14th amendment by pretending mental illness is the culprit, as long as you get to continue stockpiling your WMD. One has to wonder why you feel you need weapons that put 11 bullets into a body of a six year old in a matter of seconds. There is no lawful purpose for such guns.