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Dear boys, If your reaction to being turned down by a girl is to shoot her and a bunch of other people as revenge, maybe you're just an asshole and this is why you can't get dates? Try not being an asshole. See if you get more dates that way. Just a thought...

Dear everybody, If your reaction to being turned down for a date or embarrassed is to go get guns and kill the person who did it along with many others, you’re not an asshole, you’re a sick person who needs serious psychiatric help. Our (mental) healthcare is atrocious.

Those studies you’re citing only include diagnosed mental illnesses. The issue is that diagnoses usually lead to help. We have a terrible mental-health infrastructure here and these shooters are *definitely* mentally ill. They’re usually undiagnosed.

I understand your thoughts. There’s got to be something “wrong” with folks who commit mass murder. But it’s not mental illness- undiagnosed or otherwise. It’s a toxic stew of anger and violence in our culture. That’s a much larger problem to tackle. In the meantime, #GunReformNOW

Please read: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-duwe-rocque-mass-shootings-mental-illness-20180223-story.html …

I’ve read the op ed. I’ve also read research & FBI data that show the opposite. Check out the research of folks like Corrigan, Appelbaum, Swanson, & Metzl. Folks with MI are 10 times more likely to be the victim of violent crime than general pop, 1/3 as likely to be perpetrators.

I know. Mass shootings are also very rare, with 330 million people here. Most mental illnesses are not outwardly violent, so citing statistics that include potentially outwardly violent mental illnesses with MI that are *not* majorly skews the results.