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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If a memeber of said Militia can spend 2 weeks in a psychiatric ward for hearing voices in his head telling him to shoot up the said Militia he is a part of and still keep the means to carry out the will of said voices it isn't well-regulated, sorry not sorry. The term Well-Regulated doesnt automatically mean it is going to be regulated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Between active and reservists there are well over one million national guard memebers. The crimes of one of them hardly imply that the regulation is not good. Mistakes are possible, and considering he was let out of the psych hospital is it impossible to think the mistake even could have come from the profit driven org who makes the absolute thinniest proft margins from mental health care? What about the police, did they not also drop the ball, they could have seen this coming, this person was known publicly for his gun lust and extremism. Or is all the blame only on the one orginazation that makes your opinions the most correct looking?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is plenty of blame to go around, the problem is systemic. Putting the blame on one institution makes it a scapegoat, we need publicly funded mental health care as much as we need gun control.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Here's the thing though:

can spend 2 weeks in a psychiatric ward for hearing voices in his head telling him to shoot up the said Militia

They can't, it is already a federal law that people who are IVC'd (this guy) are prohibited purchasers and they are supposed to take the guns and input that into NICs, but someone didn't do their fucking job. Has nothing to do with the weekend warrior ~~militia~~ branch of the US military either, that applies to everyone, federally, as it is a federal law.