Don Beyer tweeted the following:
"Mental health IS a real challenge. I talk about it often. I talked about it during the House Sit-In to prevent gun violence that John Lewis led six years ago.Over half of US gun deaths are suicides; over half of suicides involve guns. Our gun problem fuels our suicide problem."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Don Beyer:
"They don't really care about mental health, they just use it as a dodge to take the focus off guns.Look at it this way: every country in the world has people suffering from mental illness. We don't have 100 times more mental illness in America. What we have is lots of guns."Read on Twitter
"They scapegoat people who commit a tiny fraction of our country's gun violence. In the process they scapegoat people with mental illness, which is awful.If you look you'll often find these exact same lawmakers vote AGAINST mental health resources, and even vote to cut them."Read on Twitter
"A word about mental health.I work on mental health all the time in Congress. I cofounded the House Suicide Prevention Task Force. I've written and passed bills.Few of those who talk about "mental health" after mass shootings - for instance, right now - actually care about it."Read on Twitter
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