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"gUnS dOn'T kIlL pEoPle, PeOpLe KiLl PeOpLe" is always fun to see trotted out. This was a failure of society to keep a shotgun out of the hands of a deeply mentally unstable man, and every rational country in this respect is either laughing at Americans who make this ridiculous argument while their gun violence rate is multiple orders of magnitude lower than ours, or maybe they just don't have it in them to laugh and just feel bad over the mountain of corpses America makes and then just says "well we just need better mental health and then everything will be fine bro".
Any mental health professional worth their salt will tell you that giving someone access to firearms simply increases the likelihood for impulsive murders/suicides.
Okay so say he didn't have a gun, he's still in a desperate situation. As long as he only has the capacity to kill himself it's fine?
Mental health intervention is important, but you can't intervene when someone is dead.
My point is that everyone focuses on the wrong problem when shit like this happens. Guns are a distraction. Society is failing people like this and he should have received help long before he ever got to the point of crisis. He was looking at losing his home, you can't therapy your way out of that and it's not something he nor anyone else should ever have to fear. The only reason we even hear about things like this is usually because someone lashes out violently or harms themselves. If there were proper safety nets in place to provide for them they could be surrounded by guns and not have an issue (barring actual mental problems that make them dangerous but these would also be caught if people were getting proper care).