What are your thoughts on the gun violence situation, especially school shootings, in America?

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Robert Carlson · Answer

Josh, this is a great question when it comes to talking about gun violence and especially how it relates to school shootings and active shooter events in the United States. I think that oftentimes it's real easy for us to blame a tangible object like the gun when we really need to be focused on the root cause, which is the individuals that are doing these attacks. We know that either documented or undocumented, that they have a history of mental health or behavioral issues. Oftentimes this is going to be tied around inability or negative coping mechanisms to deal with life stressors and negative events that are occurring in their life. And so I think we need to be focused on being able to increase resources to provide mental health, to being able to do threat detection and behavioral analysis to try and do early intervention and get these individuals help so that this never becomes an issue. Now does that not mean that there also isn't an issue with these individuals having unrestricted access to firearms? No, that's not the case at all. We do have that problem and we do need to focus on that. We do need to make sure that these juveniles don't have unrestricted access to firearms, that firearms are stored safely where they can't get access to them. We do need to make sure that if we have an individual that has been deemed to be a threat through a proper legal proceeding involving mental health, that we are preventing that individual from being able to gain access to tools that can be utilized to commit these deadly events. So there is a certain case to be made for being able to also tackle the gun violence as it relates to that, but I still think the underlying root cause is going to be that mental health crisis within the individual that leads to this.

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"What are your thoughts on the gun violence situation, especially school shootings, in America?"