Shooting Reported on Purdue University Campus.

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4. 'Suicide plus ultra' does have an association with mental illness...but not all shootings do

And the connection between the suicide-plus shootings is roughly only 50%

I'm all for getting persons who need it effective mental health care. Thanks to the ACA that's more possible now than it was just a few years ago.

I have no problem acknowledging that mental illness plays a role in these events.

And while you may have information, insight or clairvoyance that enables you to get this case right, it's important to remember that presumption of mental illness as a problem in a shooting is pre-judging, a euphemism for prejudice

The fear of prejudice and acts of shunning and discrimination remain a barrier to willingness of the mentally ill, and their family to seek and remain in treatment. A major source of that fear stems from unwarranted beliefs...that all mentally ill are alone or in some combination...unpredictably dangerous or incompetent.

If we both want people who need help to seek it out we've got to get beyond the prejudice and discrimination.