Oh no. My heart goes out to the families and individuals impacted by the El Paso shooting. We owe them and all Americans common sense gun safety laws. Other societies respond to senseless tragedies - we must do the same. We are better than this.
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We also need a national mental health initiative. When people - young men in particular - are set to self-destruct there are often signs that go ignored and unaddressed. Millions are suffering from mental illnesses and there is so much more we can do for each other.
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While a national mental health initiative might be good for other reasons, bad character is not a mental disorder, so it would not really fix the gun violence problem.
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“Bad character” is often a form of communication; indirectly attempting to express that things are not ok, there’s an unmet need etc
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Being unhappy is not a pathology. It's wrong to equate the kind of "mental illness" that drives a spree shooting with actual, pathological mental illness. Schizophrenics are not overrepresented among spree shooters.
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