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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought it was interesting to listen to The Daily's republish of their 2018 interview with a CA psychiatrist who talked about how most violence and specifically mass violence is perpetrated by men who are not diagnostically mentally ill. She caveated this by explaining that it gets into the semantics of the issue, but that the profile is usually an angry young man who has been socially isolated, bullied, has revenge fantasies and access to guns and unless we expand our definition of 'mental illness' to include those characteristics we are not going to prevent mass shootings. It made me think about how so much of the discussion is how the shooters are crazy monsters should rot in hell (it's my reaction too). Yes, my priority is keeping my children safe and I'm sick and horrified and want all the gun control changes too. But there is so little focus on the most difficult part to look in the eye: how do you prevent an innocent child - which all of these perpetrators were at one point  -  from turning into a school shooter in the first place? If you have a psychiatrist saying it is NOT diagnosable mental illness but rather the result of years of social isolation, bullying, anger, entitlement...how do we even begin to fix that?[/quote]

One way to start is to prevent them from easy access to weapons of mass killing. [/quote]
You seem to have no clue how many guns are on American streets. [/quote]

It's just crazy what is allowed in this country in the name of freedom.[/quote]

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