With yesterday's mass shooting in Oregon by someone I refuse to name, our government is once again on the warpath against legal gun owners. Our POTUS, in yesterday's speech, praised Australia's gun registration and confiscation system. Comparing the US's culture and problems, with a population in excess of 113M people against a country that has roughly 25M citizens is ludicrous, to say the least. Australia does not have the over crowding and urban sprawl that the US does.
Our problem isn't the guns, it's the mental health issue. When you pile too many people on top of each other, you're bound to have some loose cannon go off and create a problem. It's created a situation where people feel they must be medicated to deal with having contact with so many others. That medication they take comes with some rather harsh side effects.
I yearn for the days when we locked our crazies in state operated asylums, instead of releasing them into the general population and hope for the best.
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