Can we please please stop doing this?

[FBaggins]

33. I don't know about "culprit"

But it's certainly a contributing factor.

Frankly - I don't understand the concern. Nobody is saying that mental illness automatically means a violent person or that everyone with any mental illness needs to be distrusted by society.

It's much simpler than that. Removal of firearms entirely is never going to happen. Clever attempts at twisting the Second Amendment simply will not get there. What can be done is to impose rational restrictions on who can own firearms. If someone actually proposes "no gun ownership to anyone diagnosed with a mental illness" I would be right there with you opposing it... but it isn't unreasonable (and might actually garner bipartisan support) to give law enforcement tools to restrict gun ownership from some extreme forms of illness that do correlate with these mass attacks.