Republican House Whip Steve Scalise, shot in Virginia mass shooting

[Teeqoz]

sc94597 said:

Teeqoz said:

I didn't know gun-regulations had to be based on income instead of, say, mental health and such...

Gun regulations are already based on mental health in the United States. If you were involuntary institutionalized then you no longer are able to legally own a gun, unless you get a judge to sign off on it. The laws proposed in the United States are intended to limit their distribution amongst people who are deemed undesirable. The long history of gun control in the United States has its roots in racism ("black people shouldn't be able to defend themselves against the KKK, lets enact gun control"), and classism ("that poor redneck *isn't intelligent to own a gun, I don't trust him. ") 

*Note redneck originated as a class label of farmers, and then spread to the American proleteriat after the industrial revolution. It is very much a class-oriented term. 

I am sure you could do better psych-evaluations (clearly the current screening methods doesn't catch all the nut-jobs), but regardless, that doesn't mean the only other option is denying gun ownership to an economic class...