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Ogurisama posted...

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/little-girl-parents-shot-basketball-025535069.html

The USA doesn't have a gun problem, it has a violence problem. That same guy could've been using an axe, machete, or even a bow & arrow.

sveksii posted...

Guns facilitate impulsive decisions that would often otherwise not happen. Guns may not always be a root problem, but they are a problem.

The same is literally true of any weapon and, quite honestly, even people's fists. Unless you're planning on disarming the public by literally removing their arms, it'll always be an issue.

sveksii posted...

As far as mental health and other support programs go,

Something like this probably isn't a mental health issue. There's no sign that the perpetrator was mentally ill, other than the fact he acted in an extreme way.

There are a LOT of violent people in the US and other nations. And although people fixate on guns (despite the fact there are countries with higher gun ownership rates (ie, people actually owning guns rather than the highly misleading per capital guns-to-people number that obfuscates the fact that collectors vastly inflate that number) that don't have the US's violent crime rates), it does nothing to resolve the root causes.

Although mental health can be a factor, that's more in the case of mass shootings (and attempted mass shootings) rather than interpersonal disputes.

Revelation34 posted...

There is no proper use of the death penalty since it's a waste of money.

The only "proper use" would be against people who, even imprisoned, continue to pose a significant threat. Leaders of criminal organizations would be one example.

However, most actual uses are things where life imprisonment works just as well.