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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If he did not legally have a hand gun, he easily could have gotten one or used another method.  You are focusing on the wrong thing.  We need better mental health, substance abuse treatment.  And not for this family but we need better access to things like affordable health care, QUALITY health care, housing, food and jobs.[/quote]

This is a rightwing talking point that is so false I feel sorry for anyone who believes it.

If flamethrowers were legal mentally ill people would kill people with flamethrowers.
If grenades were legal mentally ill people would kill people with grenades.
If nerve gas were legal mentally ill people would kill people will nerve gas.

The solution is, as we recognize for most weapons, to ban flamethrowers, grenades, and nerve gas.  Not flood the nation with them while conservative-media rubes whine about mental illness.  (Mental illness treatment is a major problem.  We should still do gun control.)

Handguns need to be banned in this country too.  Just like we ban nerve gas and other weapons designed to kill people easily.  Just like every other civilized country - from Canada to the UK to Australia - does.  (Yes I know you can get a handgun license in Canada.  But you have to transport it unloaded in a lockbox with a special permit.  For all intents and purposes handguns are banned in Canada except at firing ranges.)[/quote]

AMEN PP!

To the poster above you:

"We need better mental health, substance abuse treatment.  And not for this family but we need better access to things like affordable health care, QUALITY health care, housing, food and jobs."

All true. But Republicans do not want any of this. They only want their guns. Pathetic.
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