Thread: Licensing and mental illness

I think people are missing that the source of the issue in the US is the absolute lack of anyform of public health care, with only criminally mentally ill and those with families that can afford some kind of treatment/care have any access to what anybody here does. There shootings are more a result of the lack of mental health reforms and less the availabillity of guns. In fact if you read into the stats areas with higher gun ownership have less mass shootings and mass shootings have less victims when stopped by anther armed individual than by the police. It seems backwards but in the case of the states more people carrying is safer in a sense. Side note if you remove gun deaths resultant from self defence the stats are much lower and even with all this gun crime the murder rate is still comparable per capita to Japan which has Zero personal gun ownership

We all ready vet potential candidates for fals pretty well, and as formentioned the police do remove firearms from people during bouts of depression if someone states that there may be a risk.

In short I dont think what happens in the US regarding shootings or mental health really has any correlation to NZ