One thing that I never hear about is the impact on American society that the great social experiment conducted here of the policy of psychiatric deinstitutionalization has had. Here's a great article that covers that topic and others wrt mass shooters:
In case of TL : DR, here are 3 salient points from it:
Progressive myths about mass shootings and weapons of war
Within a week of blaming “white supremacy” for the murder of six Asian and two white women by a white man in Georgia, progressives are now blaming “assault weapons” for a mass shooting in which a Trump-hating Muslim immigrant with a history of violence, mental illness, and racial animus gunned...
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In case of TL : DR, here are 3 salient points from it:
- Perpetrators of indiscriminate mass shootings are far more likely to suffer from serious mental illness than the general public.
- Bearing in mind that association does not prove causation, the average annual rate of indiscriminate mass shootings rose by more than five times along with the mass psychiatric deinstitutionalization that occurred in the U.S. from 1955 to 2010.
- The U.S. has one of lowest rates of psychiatric institutionalization in the developed world, and Japan’s rate is about 10 times greater.