Political Memes

Well because here you can get treatment for your mental and physical illness without ending up in debt for the rest of your life

The German police uses less bullets every year than the average policeman in the US.

Yes you read that right, the entire German police, all of them.

The UK and Canada have similar occurrences, but not in the vast number as the United States. We all understand the access to firearms is the problem.

I don't think it's a mental health problem per se - I think American society is sick.

And I don't mean sick as in "something happened to you all" - I mean sick as in "you all willingly participate in it together"

There are plenty of other countries with guns who don't have the same kinds of mass killings the USA does.

The problem as I see it is that so many Americans are just so fucking emotional about everything.

Everything's a drama, or a story that needs to be be told, of a journey, or an underdog, or revenge, or a protector. Are musical montage. "I just have to tell you where I have come from" - "you just need ro know my roots"

Every disagreement is a fascist or a communist.

Nothing just "is".

Everything has to have bullshit emotional content and context.

The trouble is none of you will ever see yourselves as part of the problem.

You're in a narcissistic trap.

Liberals are 100% certain that "it's the guns" and get absolutely high saying it.

But it's not the guns. Canada has guns.

Loads of other countries have guns.

You're all fucking hysterical.

On the other hand, guns don't kill a lot of people in most european countries (even the ones with very little gun control)

well... it is a mental health problem. Plus culture. Switzerland has guns and just as many people with mental health problems as the rest of the 'developed' world, but almost 0 shootings.

Everybody knows that sane, law abiding citizens become mass murderers the moment they hold a gun in their hands.

Yes, limiting access to the tools of murder will decrease murders caused by those same tools, but it does nothing to eliminate the murderous intentions of those people.
If we truly care about people's well being we should be doing both, reduce the risk of senseless shootings and massacres (gun control) and assist those with murderous intentions and other mental health issues who, believe it or not, are also victims of our sick culture and so-called societies.

Call it a mental health problem, a societal health problem, whatever. Unless we accept that wanting to slaughter the people around you is an unfixable natural quirk of some people's human experience, then this cannot be purely a gun control issue.

It's not even like Canada even gives a shit about mental health.

Apparently the Ontario prime minister had heard a out how much people were suffering post pandemic - - - and then cut funding to the point that people could only get 10 sessions with a consoler (not even a psychologist or anything special!)

... or anywhere else, except the USA.

It can be surprisingly difficult to get a therapist in the US if you don't have insurance. Honestly, I found the process remarkably frustrating even with insurance.

I don't know what it's like in the other countries listed, but they all have much better healthcare systems than the US, so I imagine it's much easier.

Well there is another thing they all have in common...

They're all dirty commies! At least that's what Fox News told me.

Running statistical analysis on the data now. Preliminary results suggest video games as the main causal effect.

Oh, cool - we're pretending there are no other differences between the countries listed, e.g. healthcare, social safety nets, etc. that may or may not have been shown to be an unavoidable majority of the underlying issues.

Gotta enjoy the meme circlejerk though, eh?

I always say that this is more cultural than anything else. Americans tend to be more gung ho and are ammosexuals who worship guns excessively. The Swiss have more guns per capita, they are legally mandated to own guns, but they have practically zero mass shootings unlike the US. I'm not deriding American people themselves, I'm just criticising how they handle and view guns. They can do whatever the heck they want, it's their prerogative, but if one's rights end with another then that's going to be an issue. Just relax with the guns and emulate their Swiss brethrens who are self-disciplined about handling guns. Rights come with responsibilities.

Isn't it interesting that tons of people own guns in America and DON'T shoot people? Or the fact that we had crazy people and assault weapons previously without mass shootings.

Looking at these issues as if they're either-or is ridiculous. Of course you're going to need a multivariate approach. You're not going to get rid of the guns, and you're not going to get rid of crazy people. We need to address gun laws, mental health laws, and societal collapse overall. There's no singular approach that will fix everything.