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In reply to the discussion: i just counted all my guns...guess I'm a gun nut to some [View all]Squinch
(50,949 posts)provide access to sufficient mental health services, these things wouldn't happen.
That simply isn't the case.
This man was from a very wealthy family. Whatever help an overhauled mental health system could provide, that help was already available to Lanza. He had access to all the mental health services he could use.
Yet still, all those children are dead.
So access to mental health services is, as we see here, not sufficient to prevent these slaughters.
What we know from looking at other countries and from areas that have local gun control laws is that gun control DOES prevent or at least vastly diminish these slaughters.
The mental health argument is a canard. Of course we need to provide better mental health services. But that's not the answer here.