Mental illness isn't unique to trans people iirc.
Today's mass shooting in the US
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It feels like you don't understand what you're dealing with, the United States is such a fundamentally extreme, intense and different country - to someone from the EU or UK.
The best way to solve a problem, is to understand the root cause of it.
Something is driving people to commit these acts, the fact that guns are the primary weapon is of course important - but what's behind the desire to go and actually go out and commit mass murder in this way?
If you took the guns away, would you also simultaneously take away the driving force behind someone who wants to commit mass murder of children?
'Assault rifle' lmao. Simply by using that terminology it shows you don't actually know anything. Oh, and you think criminals will go and give up their guns?
Guns haven't simply disappeared in Australia, there are actually more guns in circulation now than before 96 for example. Additionally only about a 1/5 of the guns were handed over following the crackdown.
Using Australia is such a lazy example, it's an entirely different kettle of fish to a country like America.
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You know, the therapy part still stands
No it isn't, but the post I replied to and quoted says:
"Instead of injecting people full of hormones, unbalancing their body in an extreme way and exacerbating their illness, maybe they need therapy instead."
Am I to understand he ws advocating for more mental help for all, or mainly that Trans people need it?
And you don't think injecting people full of hormones, unbalancing their body in an extreme way doesn't exacerbate their mental illness?
Many of what are branded as "assault rifles" in the US aren't that different to what some people in the UK own - there are plenty of people, within those who own firearms in the UK, who have military stylised rifles in intermediate rifle calibres though mostly straight pull rather than semi-automatic and few in the US own fully automatic rifles of this nature. While we don't see anything like the same problem in the UK even when adjusting the figures like for like.
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That's terrifying to watch.
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Yes, it's definitely left-wing nutters that mainly shoot up schools
Right or left, at least if they massively improved the laws on gun ownership, it would save innocent lives.
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I can't imagine it doesn't have some kind of negative effect unfortunately.
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My apologies then i was under the impression you were one of those...
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And music. She thought she was Limp Biscuit with that cap on.
She went to a private school and was messed up mentally from being a transvestite. A lot of these private school kids have very little contact with their parents and don't end up getting the love they need.
It would save lives in the long term, especially concerning high powered rifles.
However in this case, you've got to consider that this person went in with a map of the school, tooled up - it was premeditated and meticulously planned and it looked like they had an axe to grind, this wasn't just an "off the cuff" moment of madness.
I don't accept that if this person didn't have access to guns then there wouldn't have been a problem, they'd probably have just looked to other means to cause carnage and that's the hard part.
Understanding why people are motivated to do this in the first place.
You're right that the US is very different from Europe.
It seems rather ridiculous to me to think that this is an easier problem to solve than the already hard problem of solving the US's gun problem.
Well that's the point isn't it.
By getting rid of the guns, you wouldn't actually be solving the problem at all, you'd just be moving it elsewhere.
As in this particular case: If a persons view of the world has become so warped and broken, to the point where they feel the need to go to a school and shoot children - what good is removing guns going to do?
They might just bomb the school instead?
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It'll take a way a commonly used method of killing lots of people quickly
Yeah, because it's so easy to make bombs without raising suspicion...
Yes, it's definitely left-wing nutters that mainly shoot up schools
Right or left, at least if they massively improved the laws on gun ownership, it would save innocent lives.
You wont like the stats of who most mass shootings in the states are carried out by.
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The stats? What do the authorities do, check the perps voting record every time there is a mass shooting?
They literally do a full background check every time to look for political affiliations and sympathies. So yeah, pretty much.
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That's a lot of background checking
Mass Shootings in 2025 | Gun Violence Archive
Gun Violence Archive (GVA) is a not for profit corporation formed in 2013 to provide free online public access to accurate information about gun-related violence in the United States. GVA will collect and check for accuracy, comprehensive information about gun-related violence in the U.S. and...
www.gunviolencearchive.org
Shame they can't do background checks on people in every state before they buy guns.
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