Blaming "Mental Health" Is An Excuse

Despite the fact that mental health in American is no better or worse than anywhere else, the GOP and the NRA persist in blaming mass shootings and gun violence on "mental illness," because our unique American gun problem just couldn't be anything else, could it?

Paraphrasing CNN's Van Jones:

This iconic magazine cover is 50 years old.
And in half a century, our problem has
only grown worse.

Republicans have a thousand excuses.  Whenever a mass shooting happens, if it's a Muslim, they want to politicize it within seconds and blame all of Islam.  If it's a Mexican, build the wall!  If it's a black person, we need more cops and prisons!  But if it's a white person, it's a mental health issue, an isolated instance, "just one crazy dude."

One could easily make the case that anyone committing any crime has a mental health problem.  Hell, we're all a little "crazy" in our own way.  But when crazy manifests itself with a gun, the difference is The Gun.