Is having the conversation about mental illness and horrendous violent crime stigmatizing?

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12. 70% of murders are by guns

4.6% of all violent crimes are attributed to mental illness, and the vast majority of those are suicides.

Maybe if mass murders didn't always end up using guns; maybe if twice as an preschool children as police on active duty didn't die from guns, we wouldn't be concerned with gun proliferation. Widespread access to guns is the true insanity, and the reason behind violence in this country.

Scapegoating the mentally ill is a transparent attempt to justify our murderous gun culture. Yeah, there is nothing people love more than to dump on an underrepresented group, particularly when it buttresses their own privilege. The research on this issues is clear. Claiming mental illness s the reason for our having the highest rates of violent crime in the industrialized word is malicious, transparent bigotry.

If you want to keep guns away from the most dangerous segment of the population, prevent men who drink or use drugs or who are under are 40 from owning them.