Well because here you can get treatment for your mental and physical illness without ending up in debt for the rest of your life
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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Accessing mental health services in the UK is a nightmare though.
Was in a deep depression. I have good Healthcare and tried to make an appt with a psychiatrist to take care of it.
6 month waiting list.... I thought US Healthcare was supposed to be better than this?
Still cost me $300 when I finally got in too since it's a specialist... Fml
It's also a nightmare in much of the US if you are not rich or happen to have excellent insurance. Having to wait six months to receive a bill you can't afford isn't great.
Agreed. I'm just pointing out that it's not lack of access to mental health services that's preventing gun deaths in the UK, it's lack of access to guns.
The best and cheapest possible treatment you can get here for mental illness is the kind you grow on your own sadly 🍄
The German police uses less bullets every year than the average policeman in the US.
Yes you read that right, the entire German police, all of them.
Oh, cool - we're pretending there are no other differences between the countries listed, e.g. healthcare, social safety nets, etc. that may or may not have been shown to be an unavoidable majority of the underlying issues.
Gotta enjoy the meme circlejerk though, eh?
What, you don't love neolibs arguing that they need to disarm the masses they've kept in squalor?
Because it's the only moral thing to do, obviously.
No those places’ history of massacres were enacted by perfectly “sane” governments
But American gun owners with their super cool guns stopped it happening there right?
So far yeah
I assumed you were talking about governments genociding their native populations but apparently I gave you too much credit and you actually believe Canada and Australia just routinely massacre their citizens.
Because you're a fucking idiot.
I’m referring to native populations to immigrants, to all groups that are unarmed.
Unarmed populations get massacred. Just a fact of life. And the armed citizenry of the USA haven’t been. Because we’re armed.
It's bizarre to make something that doesn't hold up to 3 minutes of fact checking such a large part of your personality.
I don't think it's a mental health problem per se - I think American society is sick.
And I don't mean sick as in "something happened to you all" - I mean sick as in "you all willingly participate in it together"
There are plenty of other countries with guns who don't have the same kinds of mass killings the USA does.
The problem as I see it is that so many Americans are just so fucking emotional about everything.
Everything's a drama, or a story that needs to be be told, of a journey, or an underdog, or revenge, or a protector. Are musical montage. "I just have to tell you where I have come from" - "you just need ro know my roots"
Every disagreement is a fascist or a communist.
Nothing just "is".
Everything has to have bullshit emotional content and context.
The trouble is none of you will ever see yourselves as part of the problem.
You're in a narcissistic trap.
Liberals are 100% certain that "it's the guns" and get absolutely high saying it.
But it's not the guns. Canada has guns.
Loads of other countries have guns.
You're all fucking hysterical.
Dunno. Just recently(2 days ago) people without any guns hijacked an airport.
And are there mass shooting in Finland or Ukraine. Besides putin's mob I mean.
people without any guns
A mob stormed and airports in Russia. Americans may see Europe as an exotic place, but mobs storming airports is pretty rare here.
So are mass shootings. While they happen, they're very rare.
560 so far this year doesn't sound rare
Isn't it interesting that tons of people own guns in America and DON'T shoot people? Or the fact that we had crazy people and assault weapons previously without mass shootings.
Looking at these issues as if they're either-or is ridiculous. Of course you're going to need a multivariate approach. You're not going to get rid of the guns, and you're not going to get rid of crazy people. We need to address gun laws, mental health laws, and societal collapse overall. There's no singular approach that will fix everything.
Just wipe out the guns and no more school shootings, stupid.
No annual school shooting is Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, China, Hongkong, Australia and people like you still defend it.
So retarded view. Go more left till nothing's right.
"just"