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Ill go out on a limb and guess the trying to kill everyone part.

• junofan 3y ago
  Mass murder seems more the MO of a political protestor.
• cratermoon 3y ago
  I see where you are coming from, but equating mental illness with violent is problematic. The mentally ill are more likely to be victims than perpetrators. They may be over-represented in the judicial system, as a consequence of post-Reagan shift to using jails and prisons to deal with people that formerly would have been under the care of mental health professionals. The following was written in the context of mass shootings, but I believe it applies to this incident and other "trying to kill everyone" incidents. "Four assumptions frequently arise in the aftermath of mass shootings in the United States: (1) that mental illness causes gun violence, (2) that psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun crime, (3) that shootings represent the deranged acts of mentally ill loners, and (4) that gun control "won't prevent" another Newtown (Connecticut school mass shooting). Each of these statements is certainly true in particular instances. Yet, as we show, notions of mental illness that emerge in relation to mass shootings frequently reflect larger cultural stereotypes and anxieties about matters such as race/ethnicity, social class, and politics. These issues become obscured when mass shootings come to stand in for all gun crime, and when "mentally ill" ceases to be a medical designation and becomes a sign of violent threat." <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25496006/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25496006/>