re: Mental Illness related to mass shootings seems to be overblown

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The answer has to be something else.

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Not to sound like a "crazy conspiracy theorist", but I've often thought that perhaps these people are being either blackmailed or brainwashed/programmed to carry these attacks out.

Who stands to benefit from such a dastardly thing? Politicians who are looking for an excuse to remove our 2nd amendment right to bear arms (the very "right" we have granted that explicitly threatens them with death should they not do their fricking jobs).

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we also have similar measurable rates of mental illness to other countries, all of which have much less mass violence. The answer has to be something else.

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There is much more poverty and less access to weapons in other countries, as well as less personal isolation and media influence. An inactive mind creates fantasies to make their life more exciting.