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Dec. 15th, 2012 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_siobhanSince this seems to be the topic on everybody's lips at the moment.
Of the people who have been arrested after a shooting spree, have any of them been diagnosed with a mental illness?
Of the people who were killed while on a shooting spree, is there any prior evidence that they were in fact suffering from a mental illness? (Let's assume just for the sake of this discussion that shooting a bunch of people does not in itself count as evidence.)
I see a lot of people on both sides of the gun-control argument saying that lack of access to mental health services is a causative factor in these shootings. So are people making that argument because the shooters are being diagosed after the fact, or is everybody accepting it as a given because "nobody sane would do that".
Of the people who have been arrested after a shooting spree, have any of them been diagnosed with a mental illness?
Of the people who were killed while on a shooting spree, is there any prior evidence that they were in fact suffering from a mental illness? (Let's assume just for the sake of this discussion that shooting a bunch of people does not in itself count as evidence.)
I see a lot of people on both sides of the gun-control argument saying that lack of access to mental health services is a causative factor in these shootings. So are people making that argument because the shooters are being diagosed after the fact, or is everybody accepting it as a given because "nobody sane would do that".
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Date: 2012-12-16 06:04 pm (UTC)I guess, in Canada, you cannot have a sensible argument.
Why do you say that?
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Date: 2012-12-16 10:48 pm (UTC)Proximity to the US gun nuts.
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Date: 2012-12-19 10:30 pm (UTC)