the mental health care that will prevent these mass murder suicides is

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4. the level of understanding is pathetic. pr would have to be a big part.

the stigma of getting help, and that big step of thinking the unthinkable. nobody wants to think that someone could die. and if you do, you think that you can't help them. and maybe you can't.
knowing what works, letting people know what works and what to do seem like they ought to be simple things. why aren't they?
seems like if we can build and program a drone that can run up your dryer vent and kill your family we ought to have a clue how to get someone to hang on for another day.

so much suffering in the world. maybe these shootings are like early storms in the change of human climate. maybe we have just fucked it up so bad that there are not enough emotional reserves to hold a civilization together.