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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that is, people of oppressed identities can be mentally ill; cishet white males don't have mental illness, they have toxic masculinity and racism instead. this follows from the term calling for resources to be allocated to help; heretical resource allocation must be stamped out
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Chaos Retweeted Lightning_Shade
goddamn shame if mass shooting predicts mental illness but mental illness doesn't predict mass shootings so if we want to reduce mass shootings we have to make things better for everyonehttps://twitter.com/LightningShade0/status/1158384829852979201 …
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Chaos Retweeted Alex K
if only there were a way to respond to right-wing politicians and journalists being shitty other than loading their shittiness into Photoshop and hitting Color > Inverthttps://twitter.com/alexkyllo/status/1158380866378190848 …
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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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yes, absolutely no good will come of using diagnosis to take rights away from people what if we were talking about increasing access to care
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Oh, no one with power is seriously talking about improving access to care, if that's what you're banging on about. The people with power want the rest of us precarious in every dimension.
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