I know that any time gun violence or gun control are in the news, people like to blame psychiatrically disabled people.
This is your friendly reminder of the following:
96% of violent crime is committed by neurotypical people.
Psychiatrically disabled people are more likely to be the victims of violent crime than the perpetrators of it.
Involuntary commitment has no due process and is a human rights violation.
Putting us on a "national registry" of people disallowed from buying guns hurts us regardless of whether we'd ever want to buy a gun.
Persecuting us (yes, forced drugging counts as persecution even if you say it's "for our own good," national registries are also persecution) will NOT make your lives safer, but it WILL make our lives much less safe.
It's disheartening to know that when most of the people around me, most of my friends, and most of the politicians and political activists I otherwise support talk about "protecting people from violence," they're counting me as "violence" and not as "people."
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