Good to see this issue finally becoming a mainstream topic. Why do we as a society wait until after tragedies to these issues though? Suicides have been on the rise since 2003 but it took a record-breaking number of them in a year for the topic to become mainstream. The parallel with it taking the slaughter of children and their teachers to discuss how to treat mental illness and gun control measures is obvious. As a vet I am grateful that this may now get the attention it deserves. As a citizen it bewilders me why our society fails to use foresight to prevent tragedies from occurring instead of cleaning up after the fact.
Related articles
- Mental Health Solutions Alone Can’t Thwart Gun Violence, Experts Say (mwoods228.wordpress.com)
- Boys’ deaths add urgency to Conn. gun debate (bostonherald.com)
- Bipartisan Senate bill bars the mentally ill from buying guns (rawstory.com)
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