"Guns Have Changed. Our Gun Laws Have Not Kept Pace."

[HereSince1628]

44. Not a strawman at all. You're using a chauvinistic argument with the mentally ill as the hinge

Yes there are mental illnesses, but if you look at compendiums of mental illness such as the ICD-10, or the DSM-5 you WILL NOT FIND GUN CULTURE listed.

Yes, some people with mentally ill commit crimes that involve violence (battery against prison guards and institutional staff being the most common). But violence by those diagnosed as mentally ill out in the general population is statistically indifferent from the rate of violence by persons without diagnoses of mental illness. Depending on the study the rate of violence for both varies from just above 3% to about 5%.

What you are promoting is merely a hollow proposition based on bigotry toward the mentally ill (and possibly bigotry toward gun ownership) all the while shrouding the vacuity in the claim of mental illness, an appeal that probably is trying to abscond with the sound of medical or scientific authority.

And by bigotry I mean this: The state of mind of a bigot: someone who, as a result of their prejudices, or views treats other people with fear, distrust, hatred, contempt, or intolerance on the basis of a person's opinion, ethnicity, race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics