Guns and Mental Illness

Overall, the connection I had within all of the articles is that the higher concern was mental illness. People are more afraid of the mental aspect than the guns. The article "Please Take Away My Right to a Gun" linked guns and mental illness in the perspective of someone who is mentally ill. This author’s stance on guns is that she personally wants her rights taken away, to lessen her chance of hurting herself. She doesn’t really talk about helping mental illness, but she says that if she was in the possession of a gun at one of her low points she doesn’t know if she’d be alive to write this article “If I had purchased that gun and it had been in my possession, I’m not sure I would have been able to resist and would be here typing these words.” The article “Please Take Away My Right to a Gun” connected a lot to the article “Guns and Mental Illness”, they both talked about the correlation between guns and mental illness and that they should both be helped evenly. In “Guns and Mental illness”, a quote I was “If conservatives need to face the need for gun regulations, liberals need to acknowledge that untreated mental illness is also an important part of the reason mass killings take place”, which made a good point in showing  both sides, and that they need to come together and compromise. My personal stance on the treatment of mental illness is that we should take more preventative care and actually force it, even if it could be considered a “human right” not to. My stance on guns (I hate them), I think they should be hard to buy from not only mentally ill people but people in general. I don’t think they are a huge cause to the problem of mass shootings, but I do think that it’s the weapon that makes the massacres so deadly. After reading these I have a more open mind to mental illness and not just the guns because before I was really just an extreme gun hater.