That's the problem. I believe 1/4 of all Americans have had problems with some kind of mental illness.
And mental ill people are usually the victims of violence not the perpetrators.
And few of the mass murderers using guns who were caught were found mentally ill as far as I am aware. They were charged with the crimes and not found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Gun violence: Prediction, prevention, and policy
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Originally Posted by Aces4
There is definitely ignorance and a deliberate refusal to provide mental health institutions and care for the mentally impaired. The only thing they can manage to focus on are guns. A man in his fifties stabbed 5 people tubing on the Apple river in Minnesota today and one of them, a 19 year man has died. Think we need to ban knives for this mass attack and a killing?
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