According to The New York Times, the U.S. death rate from gun homicides is about 31 per million, compared to a rate in England of about 1 per million and 1 per 10 million in Japan.
Following the recent shooting at a church in Texas that killed 26 people, President Trump said that this is a “problem of mental health not guns.”
If that is correct, that would imply that we have an incidence of mental health problems 31 times higher than England and 310 times higher than Japan. I seriously doubt that is the case.
The ACA required that the parity law for mental health was applied to most health plans. Repeal of Obamacare would put mental health care coverage at significant risk.
If the problem is really a mental health problem and not a gun problem, shouldn’t we be making it easier to obtain mental health coverage and not more difficult?
We have both a mental health problem and a gun problem and need to address both so that every week we don’t have a new tragic event in our country.
Gary Oderda, Holladay