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Gun control, now
Poverty and mental illness control, now
All you're actually saying is "people are too poor and mentally ill to indiscriminately sell guns to".
So gun control now and when you've finished building your utopia where every single American is cured of every single mental health problem -- a standard 100 years beyond current medical science -- you can have your guns back.
We both know that even if we cleared your impossible bar, you'd have a new excuse ready for why we can't disarm people who are domestic abusers or extremists.
How do you propose we ensure dangerously mentally ill people do not have access to guns?
Everyone is a law abiding gun owner until they’re not, so you can’t restrict access.
Then I'm not sure how 'poverty and mental illness control' will do anything about mass shootings.
That’s the point. It won’t stop them. Reducing poverty will certainly alleviate some. De-stigmatizing mental health problems even more. But wiping out your workplace, killing your entire family, kids shooting up schools…those aren’t usually poverty things. And the mental health aspect ties right back to what I said. They’re law abiding gun owners until they’re not - IOW you can’t do shit about taking someone’s guns away until it’s already too late thanks to the gun lobby.