Easy fix is each state does a representational vote of electoral college line maine and Nebraska do that way candidates are forced to go to all 50 states to get votes . Look at Texas or California where they are strong red or blue states so the other party doesn ' t spend time even though there are a large population of the other party that live there . <| sep |> The issue with mental health problems and gun control is really messed up . There ' s a lot of people that say people with mental health issues absolutely shouldn ' t have guns , but I think that will create a much bigger problem . Our mental health system is already crappy and a lot of people don ' t get the help they need . Now , if some blanket rule is made to prevent mentally ill people from getting guns , a lot more people will avoid getting treatment because they don ' t want to be blacklisted from firearms . So then we ' ll have untreated mentally ill people running around with guns . It also vilifies the mentally ill , when we already have a big stigma against them . Sure , some shooters have been shown to have mental problems , usually depression or anxiety , but I ' m sorry that ' s not what caused them to shoot up a place , that ' s not how the millions of people who have depression act . Mental illness is just something easy to place the blame on so we can explain away how a human could do that .