Stop persecuting gun owners and focus on our countries almost non-existent mental health care faculties instead.

The President announced today a push to ban assault weapons, as well as magazines holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition. As a tax paying American citizen, and a gun owner, this upsets me and makes me feel alienated by my own government. In all three of the recent shootings that spurred this decision, the shooter had known mental health issues. Holmes in Colorado had been under the care of a professor who had reported him to campus police for his violent fantasies. Loughner in AZ. had multiple restraining orders due to his insanity. The Sandy Hook shooter Lanza's own mother was trying to have him institutionalized. Add in all the other recent storied of legal gun owners saving lives and I just don't understand how one can blame the guns rather than A failure of our mental health system.