Dan's response to Donald Trump's comments on student gun ownership preventing mass campus shootings

Mental healthcare is the root problem, which is abysmal in America. Someone I knew with mental health issues was essentially locked up for days when seeking psychiatric help without ever seeing an actually psychiatrist. Most of the time patients can't find beds. People have literally waited DAYS in ER rooms to get beds in psych wards. http://www.startribune.com/mom-daughter-waited-10-days-in-er-for-mental-health-bed/326685701/ Imagine feeling yourself go insane, begging for help, in an ER room but nobody can help because there's no room or specialist doctors available. Often times the mentally ill can't get the attention they need until they do something criminal, and then they are treated in the criminal justice system, which is traumatic, when if they got the treatment they needed beforehand they probably never would have broke the law in the first place. If a mentally ill man goes to the ER several times but isn't helped, and later commits a crime, who really failed here?

There was a mass shooting at my local shopping mall. I know people who were there. A civilian with a concealed carry permit and a glock scared the attacking gunman away from the heavily populated food court and into the back corridors, where the attacker eventually killed himself. My optometrist is in this mall, I buy my dog's food there, it's like 10 minutes away from my house. I could have been there. How many lives were saved by responsible gun ownership? http://www.kgw.com/story/news/2014/07/24/12405148/

The Second Amendment is to guarantee the ability of the populace to rise up against an oppressive government. The international community likes to point out how corrupt and oppressive America's police force is, then mocks the American public for wanting to be armed. There may be a connection.

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