Nobody who says “We don’t have a gun crisis, we have a mental health crisis” gives a fuck about dealing with mental health. Do you know how I know that? Where’s the follow-up? Where’s the money? It’s just a little stalling ruse to allow the latest gun atrocity to fade from the headlines. Also, even the most cursory mental health screening for gun ownership would immediately put gun ownership waaaaay out of the reach of anyone who has ever said, “We don’t have a gun crisis.”
Similarly, “armed teachers” is a bunch of bullshit. Setting aside the fact that it assumes that school shootings are natural and inevitable, like tornadoes, last week they wanted teachers locked up if they mentioned in passing that “gay” is a real thing. So which is it, guns or handcuffs, for the nation’s underpaid surrogate moms and dads?
So yeah. All of the GOP’s talking points on this are pure bullshit. But it is Democrat’s that allow them to get away with it every time. At least Beto had the guts to call them on it this time. Maybe that sensibility can spread.