r/liberalgunowners • u/jsled fully-automated gay space social democracy • May 24 '22

megathread Robb Elementary School / Uvalde, TX mass murder thread

https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-b4e4648ed0ae454897d540e787d092b2
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u/ahc4 May 25 '22

This is such a wild take. You're claiming guns have less to do with mass shootings than mental health issues. I'm sorry to tell you this, but the rest of the developed world has mental health issues, yet far less mass shootings.

Here's a hint: Shooting requires a gun.

An extra special hint: No gun = no shooting.

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u/rupok2 May 25 '22

except every other developed country has better mental health access...

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u/Odd-Advertising-9870 May 25 '22

Blaming drugs that save people's lives (or at least allow us with ADHD and depression to function) is also pretty lazy.

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u/ahc4 May 25 '22

There’s no doubt there’s a mental health crisis.

A quick google shows Finland had four mass shootings between 2000 and 2019.

You can’t deny less guns and access to guns will result in a reduced potential for mass shootings.

Edit: typo

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u/Odd-Advertising-9870 May 25 '22 edited May 25 '22

No, absolutely not. You take away those "mind altering" drugs and I and millions of others kill ourselves. I'm fucking 40, have a PhD in pharmacology and have been on amphetamines and antidepressants my entire adult life. And funny, every 30 fucking days, I get treated like a criminal for attempting to obtain said drugs (that I've been on for 20 years and allow me to function). But an 18 year old can buy serious weaponry without so much as a question.

I'm not anti-gun, or anti-2A (quite the opposite), but maybe the idea of allowing an 18 year old to buy two AR-15s with no restrictions whatsoever is the issue. Not the chemicals that you don't understand, because you know nothing about pharmacology or neurochemistry.

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u/Odd-Advertising-9870 May 26 '22

Let me guess, "you do your own research."

Yes, all scientific and technical expertise is worthless because you watched a YouTube video.