As an American who's lived happily in Sweden for over four years now - and who plans to renounce his American citizenship once he can get Swedish citizenship - I feel that I have some insight into this issue,
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As much as I don't want to, I find myself siding with the conservatives who say that people who perform mass shootings will just find other ways of hurting people - but for different reasons than the ones they have for saying so.
Firearms make it easier to hurt people more numerously. That's a fact, too. I agree in principle that having a blanket ban on firearm ownership would have a tremendous impact on the overall number of people killed in these incidents, which is a net positive in any case.
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Having said that, it's a band-aid for a wider problem. As someone who has frequently dealt with thoughts of suicide, and wanting to end my life, my heart breaks for the people driven to the point that they feel that hurting others is their only recourse.
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Outside of the people who are simply schizophrenic and hearing voices, these people were driven to such a brink that they felt that their only remaining option was to hurt others, and then themselves. We should be asking ourselves why that is. We should be helping them.
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