The next time somebody suggests that smoking causes cancer, I'm expecting the geniuses of Twitter to start posting how they've smoked 3000 cigarettes a day for centuries, and they don't have cancer, so it can't be true.
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Maybe part of the fear is if you allow mental health as a causal factor then you remove guns, toxic masculinity, etc., as causal factors. But that just isn't true. The latter might be a sufficient condition in some cases, & a necessary but not sufficient condition in others.
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Same goes with the fear that if you allow mental health can be a factor you risk demonizing all people with mental health issues. Well no. Mental health might be a necessary but *not sufficient* condition in some cases. Not sufficient means other factors must be in play.
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The question isn’t whether mental health is a factor - it certainly is, in some circumstances - but how strong that correlates with violence compared with easy access to guns.
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That's one question, the sort of question that a sociologist would ask. But it's entirely reasonable when you're analyzing particular cases to look at mental health, and take easy access to guns as part of the causal background. It depends on your level of analysis, etc.
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We prioritised guns in the UK following the Hungerford massacre in 1987 and treated mental health as part of the causal background. After Harold Shipman we addressed lack of oversight in the medical profession and treated mental health as the background.
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Yes, I know all this! It's obvious.
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