@flexghost

I'm guessing the father was both seriously mentally ill and deeply religious (same same) and believed his version of "heaven" was better than their lives in the US.

Émile Durkheim wrote about such problems and the conditions that cause said problems in his 1897 book "Le Suicide: Étude de sociologie." Want to understand what's happening to the US today? Read that century old book.

https://archive.org/details/suicide0000unse_x5o7

@brianbeeler This post is about gun violence.

Bad faith arguments that put the US in this situation co opt this argument by steering it toward mental health. Another problem that the nation refuses to address but NOT MY POINT

@flexghost

"John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment"

https://web.archive.org/web/20230203205349/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opinion/john-paul-stevens-repeal-second-amendment.html

That's the real answer: repeal the second amendment. Anything less is meaningless because the SCOTUS will just continue to overturn gun reform laws.

The proliferation of gun violence in the US happens because of the very unreasonable availability of firearms but also behind every shooting is a story of suffering.

With that said repealing the 2nd amendment must happen first.

@brianbeeler this is what I wanted to see

Excellent.

@flexghost "this is what I wanted to see"

“One of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.” - SCOTUS Chief Justice Burger, emeritus

Repeal the 2nd amendment and ban assault weapons for everyone but the military.

I lived in Việt Nam where there's only 1.6 firearms per 100 people unlike the US where's there's 120.5 per 100. I felt safe everywhere I went in VN. Not the same in the US.