It's ****ing handguns. The sooner everyone acknowledges this, the sooner we can work toward a meaningful solution. You can ban (and I personally do not give a **** about) high capacity magazines and the guns that shoot them, but it's a drop in the bucket if you're actually serious about curbing gun violence in all its forms.
There are currently 972 bills in the current congress on mental health issues. Perhaps you need to write letters to your local representatives to support bills on mental health? https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse?congress=117&text=mental health#sort=relevance Meanwhile, universal background checks and longer waiting periods seem to address the intersection of mental health and gun violence issues.
In 2020, gun violence killed nearly 20,000 Americans, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, more than any other year in at least two decades. An additional 24,000 people died by suicide with a gun. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/23/2020-shootings/
It's no surprise we have immigrants fleeing Mexico, Central, and South America to escape the violence in their own countries. Our violence pales in comparison to the threats they face. Desperation calls for desperate measures.
Yes there have been many bills addressing mental health including ones that focused on expanding mental health protections under the ACA.
This cannot possibly be accurate. More people die violent firearm deaths per capita in the United States than in Syria where they are actively fighting a civil war? Four times as many per capita?
I agree that should be looked at very skeptically. It might be due to what they are considering "firearms" if they are looking at deaths from handguns and rifles that might be why. Much more deaths in an active modern battlefield might be from heavy arms and air strikes. It's also more likely there just isn't good data coming out of Syria.
Even excluding war deaths from artillery and air strikes, you have to figure more people are being shot with rifles and machine guns in a literal open war than on the streets of the United States. The Yemeni civil war is still going on as well, and they have even fewer per capita deaths than Syria. I just cannot imagine printing something that says fewer people are suffering from violent gun deaths in Yemen or Syria per 100,000 population than the United States, and not just a little bit less, but 75 to 80% less. According to those numbers Syria is safer than Utah and Yemen is safer than Oregon, in terms of being shot to death.
I know this might be too HOUSTON for you They claim we threats to society And now they calling on the government to try and make somebody quiet For the bullshit they done to me Gangsta Nip, Spice-1 or 2Pac never gave a gun to me So gangsta rap ain't done **** for that I've even seen white folks from River Oaks go get the gat So why you trying kick some dust up America's been always known for blaming us nxxxs for they ****-ups And we were always considered evil @Reeko
Let's take the guns but ignore all the cultural, economic, and psychological factors that cause these shootings so people can rip each other apart in other ways.