Ive said before, if an under aged person commits a crime with their parents guns, the parents should hold responsibility in part.
A silent alarm went just off at the Department of Mutual Assured Destruction.
It doesn't need to be discussed, it needs to be addressed, yet those in power are doing everything possible to make healthcare, which mental health is part of, more expensive and harder to obtain.
Well not that the system before was great or anything but the ACA was a huge failure driving rates through the roof and nothing that was promised came through like the whole "you can keep your doctor" thing.
I don't know if it was a "huge failure", but it certainly wasn't a shining success either. It had good parts and bad parts.
keep going, I'm listening....
And they won't stop any either.
Only if you're a statist.
What kind of American are you? <smirking head tilt>
Do you have a data source for that? I won't get into the gun debate as it's pointless, but when I did a google search right now, the data I was able to find doesn't support your assertion.
1) STATES: here are the states with the most gun deaths / 100,000 people. None of them are known to have "stiff" gun laws, in fact, quite the opposite.
U.S. gun violence rate by state 2025 | Statista
Gun violence in 2024 was highest in Mississippi, followed by Louisiana, New Mexico, Alabama, and Montana.www.statista.com
2) CITIES: This is from 2021, but here are the cities with the highest gun violence. NYC is way down on the list. Chicago and Oakland are in the middle but most of the cities at the top are not known for strict gun laws (although I admit I don't know each major cities gun laws). Memphis consistently comes up as #1 on many lists and they don't have strict gun laws.
Even if you look at total crime rate, I don't see the connection you are making (google cities with highest crime rate).
And if you look at murder rates, it doesn't show that either.
Which cities have the highest murder rates? | USAFacts
New Orleans, Louisiana, had higher murder rates in its home county than any other major city.usafacts.org
What the data does show is that higher concentration of those living in poverty / higher rates of unemployment and areas that are more racially segregated have more gun violence. That makes sense to me.
Again, I'm not wading into the gun debate as there are a lot of factors at play here, but I'd like to see the data that supports "Stronger gun laws = Higher crime rates".
Oh I think there's a very good conversation to be had about mental health that will make people on every extreme side uncomfortable.
@ both I’d say USA isn’t a land of unified culture
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If your data is 1 city out of many, that's very annecdotal.
It's almost like most 2A advocates conveniently miss the "Well Regulated" part of that amendment
Always liked this one from Samuel L. Jackson
Los Angeles Times
"I don't think it's about more gun control," said Samuel L. Jackson. "I grew up in the South with guns everywhere, and we never shot anyone. This [Newtown shooting] is about people who aren't taught...
I agree. Doesn’t mean I was wrong though.
The ACA certainly helped a lot of people who didn't have insurance to get insurance, but it also DRASTICALLY reduced the quality and coverage of insurance. Unless you were in the poverty level where you got great health insurance for cheap, most of those folks only got "catastrophic" plans (cheap premium with super-high deductibles & OOP maximums) basically just to avoid the penalties. My company, to keep our rate from tripling immediately, switched us from a copay-based health insurance to a HDHP, as did countless other companies. Now I get to pay an insurance premium AND for all my healthcare costs until I hit that high-deductible and then pay coinsurance until a higher out of pocket maximum. So now I have health insurance that is cost-prohibitive to use unless I'm in dire need. And of course because EVERYONE has insurance, there's less competition and that's really just given them even more power over networks, coverage, and medical decisions.
It's almost like 2a haters don't know that well regulated meant "well equipped" in the textual language of the time and convinently miss the 'shall not be infringed' part.
