Gun control arguments often revolve around how it's not very likely you will die in a school shooting. But this doesn't consider other deaths and the costs of gun violence. Every person who dies on average, have nine people who are devastated by the loss. Parents, family, friends.
It's about the nine people whose lives were irreparably changed by the death of their loved one.
It's about the employees that have to see and clean up the bodies.
It's about the people who survive and are permanently disabled in a country that does not provide services to people with disabilities.
It's about everyone else in the school that now has PTSD.
It's about people who have never been in a shooting but have nightmares about being in one.
It's about all the gun violence that happens outside of schools.
Victims of domestic violence, and the nine people that are affected by their death.
Victims of suicide, and the nine people that are affected by their deaths.
Victims of crime, and the nine people that are affected by their death.
All the people who survive who are disabled or struggle with trauma.
It's about seeing people argue that statistically it doesn't matter. It's the belief that people's lives don't matter when death was preventable. The belief that a persons life is not worth a two week wait for gun purchases.
When our culture believes that a person's life is less important than convience, that's how we get the problems we are seeing with generation Alpha acting so violently. Where teachers are quitting because students are abusing and assaulting other students and staff members.
Why don't we have gun control?
Because of mental illness.
Listen to these arguments for gun rights:
What if gun control becomes a slippery slope to take away rights?
What if I can't defend myself?
What if we need to fight the government?
What if there's an apocalypse?
This is literally an anxiety disorder! If you go to exposure therapy for an anxiety disorder, here's what they'd tell you:
Anxiety makes up questions that can't be answered. You don't argue with the questions because they aren't real.
Here's why those questions aren't real:
You never know if your rights will be taken from you. Quite frankly, people don't have rights and it's a privilege to believe otherwise.
If you have a gun, that doesn't mean you can defend yourself. If the person attacking you is faster, more experienced, or plain lucky, you're screwed.
The government was overthrown by oligarchs around the year 2000 and you did nothing. If the government is really attacking you, you will die. You can't shoot at a drone strike.
In a globalized world, the next apocalypse is human extinction. You will not survive.
Did reading this give you anxiety? It should. That's the point of exposure therapy- to feel anxiety.
Anxiety ruins people's lives. The person who is afraid to drive, never gets to leave the house or travel. They recover when they learn that they can drive, and it's worth the possibility that they might crash.
On a societal level, gun violence is the consequence of untreated gun rights anxiety. And the way to cure it is by passing gun control and sitting with the anxiety that maybe, your fears will come true.
Exposure therapy works when you learn that passing gun control didn't impact your life- and if it did, it's not something so bad you can't wait two weeks.
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