• lud@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    People always say it’s about metal problems and not guns. And that might be true, but will you Americans ever try and fix that? Maybe by reducing healthcare prices or something.

    So far it seems like the answer is: No, we won’t do anything about it.

    At very least it makes sense to force parents to keep their guns locked away from their children and everyone else.

    No-one under 18 should ever be allowed non supervised access to weapons and everyone over should have to take a mandatory safety and usage course and of course a comprehensive background check.

    • AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      These are all things having little to do with suicide: Japan completely disarmed everyone outside of government in the 90’s, and they have better access to healthcare than Americans, but suicide rates only grew. Attention needs to be on root causes, like the explosive rise in loneliness and identifying how to repair some of the social changes brought on by a complete paradigm shift to how humans share information and interact with one another.