Ah yes, good old “we just have to focus on mental health bandaids because it’s miserable people who are the problem, not easy access to weapons to enact their misery on others!”

Tell me you didn’t even skim the article without actually saying it.

Heads up, no matter how much you increase access to therapists miserable people are still going to exist. Society’s focus on psychiatry as a catch all leaves a lot of people in the lurch as therapy providers are already overwhelmed with paitent backlog.

Wow!

It’s a good thing therapist are far from the only piece of the solution to such a problem, as highlight by the article you didn’t even bother to skim.

You can’t even get the US to agree to fund accessable health care, you think they are gunna find success in the pro-gun politicians somehow funding any kind of public mental health initiative?

You’re so close to getting it.

How likely do you think a different purely-partisan firearms ban would be?

Perhaps the constitutional amendment to revoke 2A?

For any action to proceed, there needs to be a point of compromise and departure from the wedges. Both parties are going to have to give.

Blue team is going to have to eat crow and address actual underlying issues (e.g. those you didn’t bother to read) and, to gain buy-in, is going to have to give something in, say, pushing for deregulating suppressors or otherwise delivering things the firearms enthusiast crowd would want.

Fortunately, as they’d be actually addressing the underlying pressures to violence, rates are very likely to drop.

But hey - keep pretending actual problem solving is somehow a bandaid. It fits right in with your commenting on things you haven’t even bothered to skim, let alone complex problems you haven’t bothered to understand.