RE: Does reading a lot of Wikipedia give people a wrong idea how science works?
October 18, 2023 at 11:16 am
(October 18, 2023 at 8:53 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:(August 28, 2023 at 8:28 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Those guns are issued as part of military reserve service, and can be withdrawn at any time upon the holder showing unstable mentality. That might play a part. Additionally, I'm sure that, being military, they undergo psychological evaluation before being inducted.
That's a far cry from American nutjobs.
A question in my own turn: do you think that it's a coincidence that the most gun-saturated culture in the world also has the most gun deaths not associated with civil war?
But you need to understand that having a diagnosed mental illness is not a good predictor of being a mass shooter. Here is a left-wing journal admitting that: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/mo...ntally-ill
Not a good predictor of being a mass shooter, but (depending on the illness) it’s an excellent predictor of shooting someone.
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