As long as guns are far easier to obtain than proper mental health care

[Lex]

this is what will happen time and time again.

Many in this country glorify guns but demonize easy access for all to health care, mental or physical.

[get the red out]

1. Agree 100%

Speaking as someone who had a nearly impossible time getting good mental healthcare for a loved one who had insurance.

[onehandle]

2. Yep. Gun culture wouldn't trade one precious gun for Universal Health Care. nt

[Lindsay]

3. I've thought the same thing

every time this sort of thing happens. My sister is a mental health care professional, so I've heard from her about the lack of available care. And I've had issues with depression and anxiety most of my life, so I know about it first-hand.

Makes me go from sad to angry and back again. A society I want to live in would find it inexcusable (along with people being homeless and/or hungry), and we're a long way from that kind of society - and apparently moving away from it at an alarming pace.

[patrice]

4. Mental & Behavioral Health PARITY in the PPACA - N-O-W!

[Chorophyll]

5. Yes. Exactly this, Lex.

And thank you for saying it. K&R.

[glinda]

6. Kick

[appal_jack]

7. I'll k&r this

I support the Second Amendment (and all Constitutional liberties), and I also support universal, accessible, effective, compassionate healthcare.

-app

[Lex]

8. same here

and I just bet a lot less of these random mass shootings would happen if we had that . . .