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Originally Posted by spd2918
I had police training about how to react to an "active shooter." I wish I kept my materials. I recall a high percentage of young adults who commit these crimes are actively on mental illness medication, some of which have warnings of homicidal/ suicidal idiations. Food for thought.
And I learned the first school shooting was in the 1800s. And nutballs that want soft victims go to schools and some have used knives. So do we ban those too? Or fertilizer and deisiel fuel?
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Interesting a quick search showed numbers AS HIGH AS 11% of shooters in schools exhibit serious mental health issues. Up to 20% of mass murderers.
I don't understand your point about knives, fertilizer, etc. Are you suggesting that ;since anything CAN be used as a weapon we should just do nothing? Since you are saying what doesn't work, but not making any suggestion one what to do to stop this uniquely American past time. We are the only country in the world that kills it's children for going to school.
Here is a study by MIH on mental health and mass shootings.
Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms - PMC