I Am For Gun Control

Another Mass Shooting today, a day after the one year anniversary of the horrendous mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas. 2016,2017,2018 and now 2019 are all years of mass shootings. Yet we are overly concerned with illegal immigrants. I agree that illegal immigrants coming in and committing crimes is horrible. But building a wall is not a national emergency! What we need to do is send more border control troops over there and strengthen enforcement. There are legal citizens that are committing crimes than the illegals. Guns are the problem and people are getting easy access to them because we turn a blind eye through the truth. Guns are the true National Emergency, not the wall. I will not waste my time to argue with you trump wall supporters out there. If not totally getting rid of guns, which will never happen sadly, actually strengthen and strictly enforce gun laws for the sake of the lives of the people in this country.

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Sicarium · 46-50, M

By dodging the mental health issue, all you're doing is showing that you really don't care about the school shootings, you're just anti-gun and you're pushing your ideological agenda.

Even the guy in your own example had a long history of mental health problems.

Deal with the real problem or nothing will get better.

lizzy96 · 26-30, F

@Sicarium I know that guy had issues but I'm talking in general. Tell me why is it when a colored guy shoots up a place people go nuts and say he had no excuses, but as soon as a white guy shoots up a place they say he's mentally ill?

correctingright · 41-45, M

@Sicarium You mean by denying people access to health care if they can't afford it?

Sicarium · 46-50, M

@lizzy96 You serious? Generally speaking, as in nearly every case, school shooters all have mental health problems.

When it's a black guy that has mental health problems, people do try to talk about mental health. And they're called racist for trying. It's either that or we're dealing with gang violence. Either way, people like you always want to dodge the real issue, because your real issue is just banning guns.

lizzy96 · 26-30, F

@correctingright No, what I mean is we have to actually study people before saying they have mental issues. Black man shoots people: He's a criminal lock him away. White guy: oh he has mental issues, we don't need gun control.

lizzy96 · 26-30, F

@Sicarium ok,Why does U.S have the highest mass shooting rates then?

Sicarium · 46-50, M

@correctingright What? They do have access, obviously. How else would they all be diagnosed and pumped on prescription meds?

Seriously, trying to jump ideological narratives when your go to narrative fails is a pretty shitty thing to do. Deal with the real issue instead of just using these tragedies as political fodder. What is so difficult about that?

Sicarium · 46-50, M

@lizzy96 Because we have guns, obviously. Take away the guns and you'll get stabbings, bombings, or vehicular assault.

You refuse to acknowledge this, but the tool used isn't the issue, the issue is the desire to cause harm in the first place.

lizzy96 · 26-30, F

@Sicarium I'm just going to give you can have your guns. I apologize for stating the mental health issue without proper evidence, but just you will never give up support for guns, I will never give up support for gun control. I'd rather not argue about this and become enemies.

Sicarium · 46-50, M

@lizzy96 And that's the problem. You'd rather have enemies than fix the real problem because it's just ideology to you. That's pretty despicable to be honest.

Sicarium · 46-50, M

@lizzy96 Wait, I may have misunderstood. Are you saying you don't want to argue and become enemies or that you'd rather be enemies than argue pointlessly?

lizzy96 · 26-30, F

@Sicarium I don't want to be an enemy with over guns. You see since we but can't change our views on guns it's going to pointless to keep arguing.