Entire note - https://imgur.com/a/o3Stt7Q
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I used to browse College Confidential website for about 18 months or so from 2018-2020 researching for my now college freshman. Anyway, there was a post from a parent asking for advice about her kid's suitemate who had a lot of rage, suicidal thoughts, bought a gun, etc. The update at the time was that the parents either went and took their kids out or the college intervened and reassigned the residences. I'm too lazy to look back into it, but either this was the case or there is more of this going on than we'd like to think. |
| gun control. gun control. gun control. |
| OK, read the whole thing. Yep, this kid was a psychopath. |
good luck with that. What reform would have prevented this? |
He mentioned in his note that the gun shop owner asked his brother if he had any 'mental health issues'. The brother lied. The gun was handed over. How about we start with that? National database accessible by firearms sellers and updated by medical service providers with a simple read-out - you put your driver's license or ID under the scanner, you get DENIED if you're on certain prescriptions or restrictions. And don't tell me they can't do it. I went into my local alcohol store and when carded - they had me swipe it under a non-tactile scanner. |
This is maybe the only gun control idea I’ve heard that I wouldn’t be in favor of! That would prevent a lot of people from seeking mental health treatment. Personally, I wonder if a waiting period would have helped. Clearly these were very disturbed young men and it wasn’t a passing impulse. Still, it’s possible things would have looked different three weeks later. |
so you want to create a national registry of anyone who has ever had mental health issues? I'm sure there will be no objections at all to that |
I mean...the majority of our homeless have mental health issues, almost all of our mass shooters have had documented mental health issues (Columbine, Sandy Hook, Majory Stoneman Douglass), and most of the recent assaults against Asian americans has been by perpetrators with mental health issues. IDK maybe we should just keep ignoring this subset of society and letting them have all the guns they want though.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4318286/ |
| An article said their murdered sister had a full ride scholarship to NYU and would be leaving in the fall. Their grandmother was just visiting. DISGUSTING, illness or no. |
Not to mention the pact was made in February 2020 and was supposed to conclude in February 2020. He deliberately waited until his grandmother had flown in from Bangladesh to carry out the shooting. What if she wanted to live and would have been perfectly happy with her remaining adult children and grand-children? Selfish prick. |
2 year wait to buy, mandatory classes and health screens. |
High cost insurance requirement gun ownership. |
The population of people with "mental health issues" who do not commit violence is so much larger than the population that does that a registry created this way would be garbage data. |
This is a good idea. |