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 would be nice to think that it's the government that, if a problem can't be solved by hurting somebody, not only doesn't know how to solve it, doesn't *want* to know how to solve it but it isn't it's people just people
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Replying to @chaosprime
Unless I'm missing something, that, along with the "toxic masculinity" explanation, requires an extremely provincial outlook. (Which is not to say the explanation is as simple as "the government.")
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Replying to @StevenBrust
probably but sometimes they know things in the provinces that the metropole has forgotten
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