(May 8, 2023 at 3:48 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(May 8, 2023 at 2:40 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: A madman with a gun, obviously. Now, how they get their gun is another question. In the US, as far as I know, basically around 50% of mass shooters get their guns legally and the other 50% get them illegally. Now, how it is in Macedonia and Norway, I don't know.
Andrija Drežnjak, the shooter of the mass shooting in Đakovo in 2019, allegedly bought his gun on the black market. I have no idea whether guns on the black market here in Croatia are manufactured legally or illegally.
Kosta Kečmanović allegedly stole the gun from his father, who got his gun legally.
(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.
These posts were right on top of each other. If the evidence does not support the madman with a gun theory, that can't be what they have in common. It's not arcane knowledge or a well hidden state secret. The US, Norway, and Macedonia all register mass shootings as a consequence of ethno-centric domestic terrorism.
I think mass shooters have an undiagnosed mental illness. If willingness to kill strangers is not a sign of mental illness, what is? But it doesn't follow that a diagnosed mental illness is a good predictor of being a mass shooter and that people with a diagnosed mental illness should not be allowed to have guns. Also, I think making it illegal for people with mental illness to own a gun will make people owning a gun be afraid of visiting a psychiatrist.
