the issue of mental illness in context of mass shootings is complicated, despite shooters generally being thoroughly fucked in the head, by the commitment on the woke left that mental illness, being a term of sympathy, is reserved for victim-coded people
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it's honestly sickening that if you even talk about mass shootings and mental illness in the same breath, you are instantly assumed to be talking about using diagnosis to take rights away from people, not increasing access to care and improving public mental health outcomes
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The problem is any liberal-led gun control effort is going to be redirected at the disabled and PoC instead of confronting what actually inspires (mostly white male) mass shooters: right wing politics. It will also leave law enforcement (a right wing base) armed to the teeth.
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So leftists are correct to be at least suspicious of, if not actively hostile toward, attempts to limit second amendment rights only for people with diagnosed mental illnesses. Also, a likely unintended side effect is fewer diagnoses, more untreated illness.
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