The Mental Health of Guns

"I don't know what it is, Doc... someone pulls my trigger, and I just go off... what's wrong with me?"

From The Washington Post: "The United States overall ranks worse than most other rich countries on a range of metrics related to mental health, including suicide rates and individuals’ ability to get or afford professional help when experiencing emotional distress. Meanwhile, Republicans, including Trump, have worked to roll back the public health programs and subsidies that enable whatever meager access to care that low- and middle-income Americans currently have."

Yeah, I've been saying the same thing for the last several dozen mass shootings. It's something the Republicans keep spouting, for as long as they can keep getting it up... It's not the guns; it's the mental health of the country. 

And at the same time, they keep cutting mental health programs and promoting pro-gun issues. (Official statement from the NRA: "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.")

[Think of the folks in your community who would volunteer to teach in your kids' classroom with a gun... Would you REALLY want them in a classroom with a gun? Really? It's likely that the first group of folks who would volunteer to keep a gun in their classroom are the exact OPPOSITE of the kind of people you would trust with that piece of hardware.]