While I think that's good in theory, it wouldn't work in practice. That's because of the way mentally ill people are treated in society. For example, I personally know someone who was fired as soon as their employer found out they had depression. So it's not just a social stigma but a problem that can affect a person's whole life.
We have to work at turning theory into practice. Once upon a time, equal rights for women and minorities was "good in theory". Eventually through trial and error and growing pains we've turned theory into practice.
As a nation, we've got to do the same with mental health. We've got to get over the stigmas and taboo nature of mental health. And part of that is the severe lack of mental health education and the fact everyone thinks they are a defacto expert on their own personal mental health when the reality is most people aren't that mentally healthy.
......... And when the lying gov/"public" schools have dumbed these shooters down enough not to know who to aim at, you get public massacre..
What???
Please dont' convolute and twist this into some sort of right vs left Fox News talking points conspiracy theory.
This isn't about the lying government or public schools,.
This is about a mentally sick individual conducting mass murder. He wasn't a liberal, he wasn't a conservative, he was a looney crazy mother-bleeper who grabbed a gun and decided to express his depression and rage by killing innocent people.
Every single time we go on some politicized tangent we enable the next massacre and the next and the next. Both sides of the isle need to stop the politics and address the issue with concrete fixes.
Making guns illegal will never fly. As a tax paying law abiding citizen I REFUSE to surrender my guns simply because crazy people out there go on shooting rampages. To me, that is no more a fix than taking everyone's automobiles to stop all the drunk drivers out there.
We have all of this freaking technology. How about we use some of it along with the scientific method.
Develop metrics and correlations for mass shootings
Profile the people who commit these things
Use databases and A.I. programs out there to comb through all of our information
ID people who are "at risk" of committing these types of shootings and monitor them and get them mental help BEFORE they go on shooting rampages
Require registration and licensing for guns
Put GPS trackers on all guns
Require mental health screenings for all gun applicants
Anyways, we need to be more proactive about these things and stop trying to blame the left or the right for all the problems here.