Comments by "Meh Pluribus Unum" (@pluribus_unum) on "Can anything be done about mass shootings in the US? | The Bottom Line" video.

  1.  @akalen2010  - No other peer nation with equivalent mental health problems has the violent crime rates the U.S. does. Why? Because, unlike the U.S., those nations have firearm safety and regulatory laws that prevent firearms from getting into the hands of likely violent offenders in the majority of cases. But, not the U.S., where the Republican party banned any federal funding for research into gun homicides and suicides and refuses to enact the 2nd Amendment compliant laws their voters -- and even a majority of NRA members -- want made into law. The Democrats have passed dozens of bills, covering everything from mental health resource funding, additional grants for school security, voluntary gun buybacks, sustained funding for research and analysis of gun deaths, closing loopholes in our existing background check laws, and increased regulation in the sales and tracing of firearms. So, your move, Republican voters and civil servants. Show America your spine when it comes to dealing with the number one cause of death for U.S. children; death resulting from the accidental or homicidal discharge of a firearm.
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  2. It's the guns, not mental health or anything else.
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  3.  Shah Lomyon  - Wrong. It's the racism, not the money. It is not an issue of cost, that keeps the United States of America from implementing universal health care coverage. We could easily afford it without even touching the military spending. What prevents the US from following the far more homogeneous population countries' social democracy regarding medical care is the systemic racism of white Americans. If white nationalism wasn't being embraced by the right wing here, we might be further along our way toward rectifying the racism.
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  4.  @OldHickoryReincarnate - Wrong. It's the racism, not the money. It is not an issue of cost, that keeps the United States of America from implementing universal health care coverage. We could easily afford it without even touching the military spending. What prevents the US from following the far more homogeneous population countries' social democracy regarding medical care is the systemic racism of white Americans. If white nationalism wasn't being embraced by the right wing here, we might be further along our way toward rectifying the racism.
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  5.  @MirceaKitsune  - It's the guns. "Mass shootings are difficult to prevent with mental health resources alone, experts say." "Blaming mass shootings on mental illness is a deflection of the fact that there can be no effective solution to curb such atrocities without gun control, experts said."
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  6.  @MirceaKitsune  - The real solution to mass shootings is keeping military style rifles of[f] the street, and all guns out of the hands of those likely to harm themselves or others based upon mental health evaluations, and/or a record of prior misdemeanors or criminal behavior. All of those solutions have been passed as pending law [for over a decade by Democrats] and sent to the Senate where Republicans refuse to even debate them again and again. Stop using deflection to ignore the core issue; the current insane state of U.S. firearm safety laws due to Republican obstruction for three decades. "...contrary to the rhetoric from Fox & Friends and the NRA, whatever Congress does or doesn’t do in response to El Paso and Dayton, the Constitution is not to blame." "Until 2008, the court had never held that the Second Amendment protects private gun ownership. The reason is obvious: unlike most constitutional clauses, the Second Amendment actually sets out a reason for the right in question. The text reads, in full (and with the odd punctuation in the original): “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”"
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  7.  @Iamwolf134  - Well said.
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