That's a huge problem, and it's getting worse all the time. In the past (prior to effective psychotropic drugs), someone with chemical imbalances in their brain was sent to an insane asylum. Today, people with serious mental health issues can lead moderately functional lives with the help of psychotropic medication. They reproduce and have multiple children who are inclined towards having mental illness.

Who invited Captain Whataboutism?

@SeaGreenEyez it’s not 2019. Birmingham has got bad since they got their democrat Mayor. I will admit that

@SeaGreenEyez it’s still not 2019.

@SeaGreenEyez

Can you tell me what political party runs the top 20 cities for gun deaths?
It’s an expected story. Reduce gun rights, reduce police…

@SeaGreenEyez Thank you for trying to bring some sense and facts to the site. I am a contributing member to both CSGV and Alliance for Gun Responsibility. While living in Germany, I saw firsthand how gun can be regulated successfully. Most 'civilized' countries see us as barbaric (and we are) as far as this issue is concerned.

@SeaGreenEyez none of those are considered the most gun friendly states either really. Not like Arizona Idaho Texas Oklahoma. What you really are saying is poor people commit crimes with guns, no shit. But to completely avoid his point on these large urban cities with very strict gun laws having high gun violence is disingenuous.

@SeaGreenEyez Now break that down by city leadership.
You’ll find that they are 100% blue.
Democrat are in control of everything they complain about.

@SeaGreenEyez you haven’t shown me how I’m wrong yet…. Aside from your feelings anyway.
Do better

I loved how you perfectly predicted exactly what the first dumb fuckin' Republican asshole to comment would do. Brava. Fuck Republicans.

Is that the best place to direct your anger? There are 1.2 guns for every single person in America. Our policies have a direct casual chain to dead children. Republicans consistently uphold these policies. There will ALWAYS be more dumb parents because our country is a majority of dumb people. Putting the dumb parents in jail after the school shooting doesn't do those dead children any good. Republicans are the common denominator.

@JeffMurray it might keep them from supplying more guns to their other kids.

@JeffMurray Republicans being the common denominator is a given. I don't need you to educate me about guns.

@Lorajay Are there a lot of separate shooting sprees perpetrated by siblings?

@JeffMurray I have no idea about that but if the parents give all their kids a gun. It could very likely happen.

@Lorajay I'm talking about where to best concentrate efforts (and place blame and anger). Preventing the one in a million double child in one household school shooter seems like a red herring to me. Great, punish the parents for being idiots, but no one should sleep better tonight if they're sending their kids to school tomorrow because of it.

@JeffMurray I guess I didn't express myself clearly again. I only meant that these particular parents would very likely give any other children they may or may not have a gun therefore if they are in jail they won't be giving any other kids a gun. I think it would be a good thing for these particular idiot parents to not have the ability to give anyone a gun.

I never meant to imply that it's very likely that any sibling of a mass shooter would also be a likely mass shooter. One thing I am very sure of no one shoots someone if they don't have a gun.

@Lorajay Agreed. Which is why I'm concerned about big picture gun legislation and the horrible shit-fuck Republicans that would rather hundreds of children get shot to death while trying to learn than fail to suck the dicks of the gun lobby groups. I don't have children. Never will. And I almost don't care about anything anymore. I'm pretty close to not giving a fuck about this either. (Which is why I didn't even bother responding to that other woman who apparently already knows everything there is to know about gun violence; I don't have to care about children getting slaughtered. I could vote like a scum-of-the-Earth-Republican and it wouldn't affect me at all other than to have to shrug off every subsequent lifeless body of a child as a small price to pay to be able to buy guns at will.) But for the potentially very short time I still do, I'm going to speak as loudly as I can. REPUBLICAN POLICIES ARE MURDERING YOUR CHILDREN. That is not hyperbole.

On to your point about locked up parents being unable to "give" a kid a gun. You know who else can't? All of the people that don't have/can't buy guns anymore. I don't disagree with you, it's just that you're describing putting a band-aid on a severed artery here.