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Yes. There is plenty of opportunity to improve our mental healthcare in addition to common sense gun control reform that respects the 2nd Amendment.
As for the "other factors" that might be prevalent, they vary by country. I'll leave it as an exercise to you to figure out which factors might better explain the high gun deaths in, say, Swaziland, than ownership prevalence. I know you can do it!
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
But I've a more serious problem with this "mental health" area. Its not that the argument is not right but how do we pre-define who is at the tipping point? There is big gap between having violent thoughts or even having violent behavior and actually acting on them to that extent, much more so with the guns.
I'm not saying its not the biggest cause, its just it would be hard to find a sane person in modern society.
Again, I must bring back my background in third world country, I mean have you ever seen one of these?
----during covid times no less
I kid you not, I've traveled quite a lot using public transport, and it would be hard to find a day where I didn't want to beat someone up.
I mean frustration, momentary anger, or even just sheer humidity can prompt some deadly thoughts in just about any average person. Its just that not everyone actually gets tested enough
--I'm just thinking loud here, I've no idea about situation in US or any other country tbh, this is just something that comes to mind. I feel solution is not going to be one or two fold.
Annual Gun Violence Impacting People of All Ages in the U.S.
Every year, 115,551 people are shot. Among those:
• 38,826 people die from gun violence
• 14,062 are murdered
• 76,725 people survive gunshot injuries
• 34,566 are intentionally shot by someone else and survive
• 23,437 die from gun suicide
• 3,554 survive an attempted gun suicide
• 483 killed unintentionally
• 521 are killed by legal intervention
• 1,376 are shot by legal intervention and survive
• 324 die but the intent was unknown
• 4,471 are shot and survive but the intent is unknown
• 547 women are killed by their husband or male dating partner**
Every year, 7,957 children and teens are shot in the United States. Among those:
• 1,663 children and teens die from gun violence
• 864 are murdered
• 6,294 children and teens survive gunshot injuries
• 2,788 are intentionally shot by someone else and survive
• 662 die from gun suicide
• 166 survive an attempted gun suicide
• 10 are killed by legal intervention
• 101 are shot by legal intervention and survive
• 89 are killed unintentionally
• 2,893 are shot unintentionally and survive
• 38 die but the intent was unknown
• 380 are and survive shot but the intent is unknown