Elementary school children can read the graphs from this article, but not if they're dead.
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The countries that don't allow guns don't have the problems that the United States has.
Also, I think that a test of someone's current psychological state, specifically relating to the person's current ability to behave responsibly, is a better restriction than unlimited sharing of mental health records.
A few years ago, I published many of the pages of my records from a mental hospital. I don't know how many people read them, but the lack of accuracy displayed by them ought to be shocking to people who assume that the mental healthcare system is helpful. I know how to survive the system, and how to access it for what I need; it took years of being debilitated by that system before I figured it out. Abuse and neglect are built into the mental healthcare system, because there is nothing stopping practitioners from blaming the clients for the health of the clients not improving. Many people who have tragically spent their lives categorized as being chronically mentally ill could have had normal, productive, happy lives if the system provided the quality of care that is routine for physical health care, and they know it, but nobody around them does.
The four countries discussed in the article about gun control are the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan and Germany.
The prevalence of mental illness in those countries is not less than in the United States. Japan in particular has a terrible suicide problem.
It could be said that Japan's suicide problem is the result of a cultural tradition that treats suicide as an occasional social necessity rather than as a sin or a sign of mental illness. It could also be said that the American homocide problem is the result of a culture that treats homocide as entertainment.
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