Too bad that is not entirely possible. The human mind is deeper than we can ever fully understand, and some people will snap after they already have a weapon. Guns are a more definite approach when dealing with this matter. Neither approach will be entirely successful, but gun control is a much more stable route to go.

we've had our mental status much longer without much success

We've had guns for hundreds of years and when the founding fathers made the 2nd amendment the guns they had shot one shot and has a tendency to miss so they didn't count on shootings to be a big problem. Now we have guns that shoot 30 shots and land all of them if the shooter is well enough trained. But yea our mental health for all humanity is slowly dwindling.

But we do need to make sure that guns can't be put into the hands of the mentally unstable

This.
I am really pro-guns, but we do need to revise how well mental health issues.

As much as NRA is really needed to support gun-owners, they are shitcunts for blaming it on the media. I don't think it has any major impact on children.

I mean I grew up around GTA too, when I learned to fire a gun I learned respect, and it worked.

Just a bunch of crazy people being crazy

Mental health issues have been around as long as humans have been around. We don't need to fix mental health issues.

Cancer has been around since humans have been around.
We don't need to fix cancer.
- you

Wow, I thought the sarcasm was apparent but I guess you're too retarded to see it.

Really? Because it sounded like you said something extremely fucking stupid. Care to explain how it was "sarcasm"?

Original comment, "We have had guns for hundreds of years we don't need to fix guns." My comment, "Mental health issues have been around as long as humans have been around. We don't need to fix mental health issues." I was mocking the original comment. I replaced guns with mental health issues to show the outlandishness of his comment by reversal.