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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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.
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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25% of us will suffer mental health issues. We can't prevent murders by putting 1/4 of the population under survey of even with better health care. We can make murders more difficult to carry out
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Ah, is the context Trump's thing about targeting mental health? I hadn't seen that until about 1 minute ago. (I try to avoid Trump!)
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