Ziggy ⏳Jesus was a Socialist  🌹

There are people who are *quite* insistent about mental illness *not* being a factor in mass shootings. It doesn’t seem to me to be a principled or evidenced position, but rather an attempt to prevent stigma against the majority of mentally ill people as a result. 1/

It's definitely a factor, but I think it's important that we ask why there's such a prevalence of mental illness, and where the violence threshold is. I think the answers there would be significantly linked to wealth inequality and rampant militarism.

*OF COURSE* As I’ve been trying to tell people for years now. You get it.

It doesn't seem like a complex idea to get really. But the cemented in-group positions on both sides of the argument seem to blind people to these explanations. One side wants to blame doors and video games, and the other, only guns. There's a lack of nuance.

Haha exactly. I'm saving this, it's definitely going to come in handy.

This is what parties bring: Dumbed down, overly simplified, soundbite answers. Because they think the populace are stupid. But they’re not. Give them a chance to grasp the entirety of the issue, and they definitely do. The over-simplicity only serves to keep the parties in power