Comments by "Taylor Griffith" (@taylorbug9) on "Why the US Is Known As the Mass Shooting Nation | Field Notes" video.

Maybe if every person in this country wasn't living in a state of constant existential dread, So many of them wouldn't lose their minds and do awful sh_t. But what do I know I'm just a random person.
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Oh my God thank you! Someone that knows what's going on for real!
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@nattobaby You seem to think that guns are the only tools of death. A couple of preteens once blew up a trailer in my neighborhood when I was in high school with nothing more than the cleaning chemicals they found under their sink. They ended up burning down an entire trailer the shed and ruining the siding on all the surrounding trailers. They're quite lucky no one lived in that trailer. You can kill people with anything. Banning things isn't going to stop people from killing each other. As I said, poor mental health is the biggest perpetuator of violence
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Everyone there is likely to be unarmed and vulnerable 😞 Not saying we should arm teachers or anything.
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Well mental health is a far bigger factor than access to guns anyways. We have to accept that many of the mass shooters in schools had no previous criminal records or anything else that would have stopped them legally from buying a gun. Yes some of them wouldn't have legally been able to get their hands on a gun if we had stricter gun laws but too many of them still would have been able to acquire the gun they used to shoot the people they shot. Mental health is the biggest contributor to the violence we see in our country. And until we address it nothing will change.
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We are. But if we put our foot down, stop electing criminals and start electing educated professionals, we would have a much better chance. Our country will continue to fall down the drain if we don't grow a pair.
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Until we start talking about mental health and the quality of life in America, we will not get anywhere. If people didn't have access to guns they would still hurt each other. Some kids when I was in high school blew up a trailer in our neighborhood with cleaning chemicals they found under their sink. Access to guns is not the problem. The mental health of our nation is. Every single day life in America becomes more and more hopeless. And when people become hopeless they start doing bad things. Especially the weak minded, they lose their sh_t and do things like sh__t up a school. We need to start caring more about our citizens and their mental health and their quality of life.
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This though
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We also need to severely work on mental health. Access to guns doesn't create criminals. Poor mental health and poverty and lots of stress and depression create criminals. And that's what our country is facing. Seriously high levels of mental health issues.
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1:28 and yet they do nothing against the tyrannical government except continue to vote for the worst perpetuators of that government.
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@PonyBoy1776 nah it's pretty weird.
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Access to guns doesn't create criminals. I'm not saying we should have zero gun control, but I am saying that mental health is a far larger part of the problem than access to guns. Americans weren't always shooting each other at such high numbers. As life has gotten worse, even though it should be getting better because of technological advances, people see that. People see that things are getting more and more hopeless for all of us. Everybody's coming to the realization that large corporations are making the Earth less and less hospitable for humans. And most people think nothing that can be done to stop that. When people feel hopeless for too long they start doing bad sh_t. If our country made an actual effort to get rid of the criminals in charge, put actual qualified professionals in those positions. We would start to see a lot less violence. If we actually made sure that our citizens within our country were taken care of properly, and the law actually protected them, we would see less violence.
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It's not a cultural problem it's a mental health problem, and they absolutely can fix that. They can fix it quite easily actually. All they have to do is stop worrying about their own bank accounts and start doing the job that we pay them to. We could look out for ourselves and stop electing criminals to run our country. We could look out for ourselves and elect actual educated individuals who have expertise in the field they would be dictating in our government. Our country is in the s**** because we put it there. We elected these criminals and we kept reelecting them even after they showed us their true colors. Not a single person currently in government gives one single f*** about any of us Americans. They care about themselves and their bank accounts. They're so goddamn greedy and disgusting They don't even care about the future of their own families. They don't care that they're ruining the economy or the environment. They don't care that their grandchildren may not get to enjoy any of the things they got to enjoy in life. As long as they keep adding zeros to the end of their bank account They do not care about anything. We have to care enough to get them out of office and into a prison cell. We have to put our foot down collectively and remove these criminals from office. Or nothing will ever change in this country.
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Mental health is the problem. If we didn't have guns we would still have the same problems we have, because people are not right in the head. Our country does not instill good values within people, and our economy does not reward good people. Our economy specifically rewards those who put themselves above others. Pair those kinds of values with a failing nation that makes its citizens lose hope on a daily basis? Of course you're going to have violence.
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Guns aren't the problem. If we didn't have guns people would just kill each other with other means. Mental health is the issue. Our country cares far more about money than human life. And that's why we have so many criminals. When people feel hopeless they start doing bad stuff. When they felt helpless their whole life and they live in a country that values money over humanity? Bad things happen on large scales.
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Well duh, but that's nothing you're ever going to accomplish completely. Look around at other countries. The countries that take care of their citizens and make sure that they are happy and well cared for, those countries see a lot less violence. Those people in those countries have no reason to be violent because they're happy. Access to guns doesn't create criminals. Poverty and poor mental health do. When we start combating those for real we will start seeing less crime. But as long as we continue to let capitalism run unchecked and let people's lives get worse and worse while we make them work harder and harder for less and less money, things are going to continue to get worse and worse in this country.
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@TheZenGarden_ well that was the problem though wasn't it? They never were good civilized people. The people that came to America and took this land from the people who already lived here were disgusting terrible people. They weren't fleeing from prosecution in Europe they were the ones prosecuting others in Europe. They had gotten themselves such a nasty reputation that they weren't welcome anywhere anymore. But they were still not prosecuted. They laughed because they wanted to prosecute more people. They wanted to continue to be in control of others.
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That's a horrible thing to think. I think America is a terrible country but I still think we can be saved. We just have to put our foot down with people that are f_cking up our country. We have to stop electing criminals. And start electing qualified professionals in the fields that they are going to be dictating in our government. Why are voting periods popularity contests? People who don't have knowledge and experience shouldn't be in our government. Betsy DeVos for example. She knows nothing about education so why was she put in charge of education? Because she had money. We need to stop allowing money to talk in this country. We need to lock up all the actual criminals who put money above human life. And we need to stop letting companies destroy our environment for profit. Our country is not beyond saving. We just need to grow a f_cking pair and stand up for ourselves.
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I would have to see substantial proof to believe that the government was making these people shoot up places. Like I'm sorry but I want some bank statements showing that they were paid off or something. Because no one is going to throw their life away for nothing. If the government is creating these incidences, then there will be a paper trail. Until I see that paper trail I have to assume that these people are choosing to do this on their own. Mental health in this country is heavily ignored.
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@PeaceManBro Because they're lied to. How do you not understand that?
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Poor mental health in a country that continues to make its citizens feel more and more helpless with each passing day.
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It's pretty obvious right.
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@PeaceManBro Honey you're just not intelligent if you think the US leads the world in anything other than locking people up and gun violence. That does not make our country good. Our education continues to fall behind other countries, our health care is the most expensive but not even close to the best in the world, which is absolutely appalling. We have the highest mortality rates of infants and birthing mothers of any developed nation in the world. Meaning that more newborn babies and mothers die during childbirth here than any other developed country in the world. We don't lead the world in anything that would put us in first place. We're not a good country. Just because you can go out and buy a flat screen TV or a smartphone doesn't mean that our country is doing well.
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@PeaceManBro And those are literally only a couple examples of why we're not great. We're not even good.
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No. That doesn't accurately represent most liberals ideas at all. Where do you keep getting these thoughts? From videos like this? Because a couple people in the media said that the rest of us said so? Why don't you read the comments to find out how people really feel? Why don't you actually talk to liberals? I'm a liberal I don't think the problem is guns. The problem is mental health. Our country completely ignores mental health and cares far more about money than human life, of course we're going to have violence.
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You hit the nail on the head. Conservatives are single-handedly driving this country into the ground And we all have to suffer along with them, because of them.
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