You're saying elected officials are mentally ill, they have to be to get there. Yet in another breath, you're saying the mentally ill should be allowed to own guns..
Your generation raised us, blame yourself
Brilliant solution
What on earth is your point in the first answer? Leaders are not mentally ill. They are sociopaths. You cannot help sociopaths. You cannot treat them. If you give them therapy it only gives them new strategies to fuck over other people with and help blend in. And you want to give them exclusive license to weaponry. That is demonstrated all through history to be a bad idea. Reference the hundreds of millions dead at the hands of government.
I certainly did not raise your generation. You guys are a product of the generation before mine. The government controlled education system is largely responsible for your generation. That and a lack of parents at home. Know what happened in communist countries where everyone is forced to work? The kids wound up in day cares. No big deal right? Well guess what, they grew up emotionally stunted in a major way. Criminality rampant. Sociopathy greatly increased. And they are still suffering as a result today. Same thing being reported in Quebec day cares which are supposedly some of the best in the world. The rate of criminality and sociopathy greatly increases as well as a lack of empathy.
You're far too ignorant and obtuse to see what your solution results in. You know very little about what has made society what it is today. You don't understand the role of the family in this process (hence your likely regressive positions on the subject) and you do not understand that if you set all the awful precedents you want to set, even if you're the group in power - you won't always be.
For the same reason anyone who defends government spying is a moron, you are also a moron. "If you don't do anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about."
But you don't get to decide what's right and wrong. Whoever is in power does. And it won't always be "your guy". Which is why it's best to limit the size of government in the first place.
As far as biggoted speech being not worth protecting because it is offensive, that is ridiculous. People can be offended by anything. Many people were very offended by the notion that the Earth wasn't the center of the Universe and that it was round. They even claimed the guy making the claim hated God and humanity itself. So they killed him. Maybe you've heard of him? But yeah, let's not protect speech.
More over, I'd much rather hear a biggot speak out loud than hide in the shadows. It's the best way to counterbalance their ideas which generally don't stand up anyway - all the more reason to let them spew. Maybe you can change their perspective. But nah, instead you'd rather label them criminals and hate them in the same way they hate minorities. Which only creates divide. Which only makes the problem worse. Look at the fucking bullshit happening on College Campuses. You can't even dress in many halloween costumes because of cultural appropriation whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean. It might offend someone. And you're not allowed to join black only groups anymore or hispanic or whatever.. it's becoming so so segregated again... it's so fucking stupid.
This cultural Marxist bullshit is going to destroy society. Probably already has but we're in death knell right now. Your generation is, frankly, extremely frightening. My generation is somewhat frightening, but not to the extent yours is... most the folks in my demographic are waking up the utter insanity being pushed by the extreme left.