• Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
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    1 year ago

    It’s not really the same… There are people that like guns for a variety of reasons and 99% of them will never take a life. Their only reason for existing isn’t to go on a murderous rampage.

    This was the example where I just said “you know what, banning guns isn’t going to fix it”

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongsberg_attack

    Another person replied about an attack with a van in Canada.

    I think we genuinely need to treat this as a mental health crisis, but like for real. Not the Republican “thoughts and prayers” mental health crisis, but a real thought out use of resources to figure out why so regularly we have people in our society that want to kill a bunch of random people.

    We should also do more background checks and close loopholes, even though that wouldn’t have helped here.

    • SheeEttin@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It would have helped here. This guy was previously committed for mental health issues. That should have required him to give his guns to a friend or whoever for safe keeping.