This actually pisses me off about the Democrats:
Democrats dispute the claim that lawmakers need to target mental illness more so than the availability of guns to reduce shooting violence in the U.S. They say that similar rates of mental illness in other developed nations across the globe prove that mental illness alone cannot fully explain the prevalence of mass shootings in the U.S.
In effort to make their almost certainly defeated stand on gun control bills, they are failing to call the Republicans out on their current stance for mental health reform. The Dems should take the opportunity to gain some ground expanding mental health care.
Unfortunately, we are too entrenched in "they are taking that side this time, so we'll take the other."
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