(May 8, 2023 at 2:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(May 8, 2023 at 2:51 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: You claimed that people with a diagnozed mental illness should not be allowed to have guns because they are significantly more likely to commit a mass shooting, right? Well, the evidence does not support that.
So, mass shootings are more likely to be done by people with no aberrant mental processes? This means that Safir Ahamdi Musthaveanibble who shoots up a dozen Israeli schoolchildren because he believes that will create a Palestinian homeland is a perfectly sane, rational person.
Think it through, whydoancha?
Boru
You understand the difference between having a diagnozed mental illness and being insane, right? You can argue that mass shooters are mentally ill. After all, if willingness to kill strangers is not a sign of mental illness, what is? But whether a diagnozed mental illness is a good predictor of being a mass shooter is another question entirely. The vast majority of mass shooters are not seeking help from a psychiatrist before committing the mass shooting.
