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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't it possible to get a type of long-lasting medication patch or shot like you might use for birth control so that people with mental illness have to at least go to a doctor to have it removed before deciding to go off meds?  I'm not suggesting forcing it but just that the added step of having to see a doctor and discuss why it's a bad idea to go off the meds might help keep them on more![/quote]

The only thing this kind of rhetoric accomplishes is to stigmatize mental illness so that people who need help are less likely to seek it. People with mental illness are not the problem re: mass shootings. The insane accessability of extremely lethal guns is the problem.[b] There's no reason to think the Vegas shooter had any mental illness. The only reason people are talking about that is because our culture's only two explanations for mass shootings are Muslim terrorist or white mentally ill loner. [/b]

Even if you accept that our gun laws will never change, the factors that most correlate with serious violence are not mental illness, but: a history of childhood abuse, binge drinking, and male gender. (See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4318286/) Should we require all men to take that drug that doesn't allow alcohol to metabolize? That would probably save more lives than your "patch for the mentally ill" idea.
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Another actual risk factor that often doesn't get talked about is a history of domestic violence.

Most of these people are not mentally ill.  They are people with a grudge against the world who have easy access to lethal weapons.  I don't think that this guy "snapped."  He bought dozens of guns, and there is nothing spur of the moment about what he did.  It took planning and resources.  What he appears to have had is a gambling problem.  [/quote]

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