Protect Our Kids Act
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dorankj
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That’s all you got from her? Pretty sad!
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Her testimony was compelling. Unfortunately her premise that the same people who ask for more gun control are the same ones who call for defunding the police misrepresents what's in place now and what better gun laws can accomplish.
'Defund the police' was a meme taken on by George Floyd's murder protesters. The bumper sticker plea lacked context and was flat out wrong. As Colorado has been demonstrating in a new program there they are trying out first responders to domestic disputes and other calls with a team of mental health professionals. The results were astonishingly good. When we have a state like Texas that ranks dead last in funding for mental health and yet has some of the most lax gun control laws in the US, something is going to break and in Uvalde it did. The premise of the 'defund the police' was to do what Colorado is trying out, to stop over using the police by asking them to be domestic violence psychiatrists when instead funding should be in place to use mental health teams instead. We put too much on the police and ask them to clean up messes that shouldn't be in their role, we should look to them instead as a last resort. But to get to that point funding for mental health, unfettered access to guns and ammo and accountability have to be put on the table.
Now that the Senate has announced a framework for new policies, with at least 10 Rep's on board, it's time to 'do something' as the Uvalde survivors say.
'Defund the police' was a meme taken on by George Floyd's murder protesters. The bumper sticker plea lacked context and was flat out wrong. As Colorado has been demonstrating in a new program there they are trying out first responders to domestic disputes and other calls with a team of mental health professionals. The results were astonishingly good. When we have a state like Texas that ranks dead last in funding for mental health and yet has some of the most lax gun control laws in the US, something is going to break and in Uvalde it did. The premise of the 'defund the police' was to do what Colorado is trying out, to stop over using the police by asking them to be domestic violence psychiatrists when instead funding should be in place to use mental health teams instead. We put too much on the police and ask them to clean up messes that shouldn't be in their role, we should look to them instead as a last resort. But to get to that point funding for mental health, unfettered access to guns and ammo and accountability have to be put on the table.
Now that the Senate has announced a framework for new policies, with at least 10 Rep's on board, it's time to 'do something' as the Uvalde survivors say.
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