Some thoughts on the mentally ill, violence and mass shootings.

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I'd argue you can't really do what they do without being mentally ill.

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I'd argue you can't really do what they do without being mentally ill.

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What you're describing is someone who is psychotic, not anti-social, which is a mental illness.

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Being anti social doesn't make you shoot up random people in public places. Being mentally ill does.

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People don't fully understand how little mental illness has to do with acts of violence, gun or otherwise.

These mass shooters for instance may or may not be mentally ill. Mental illness, in many ways is incidental in all of this. These men commit these acts, not because they suffer from mental illness but because they're anti-social. They're criminal minded or they lack empathy and all the traits that make us human.

Anti-social personality disorder is not a neuro-psychiatric disorder, it's not an illness. It's a personality disorder. A defect of character. It's a flaw in who you are as a human being and it's utterly untreatable. Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals and Prisons are filled with men who have this defect. Some of these men are mentally ill, Some or not but they're all anti-social and it's that characterological defect that sets the stage for the sort of violence we've seen in Maine.

Bipolar disorder, chronic paranoid schizophrenia, major depression or other such illnesses don't cause or contribute to these horrible events. In fact, as with many of our social problems, the mentally ill are scapegoated in all this shite.

The fact of the matter is this. The mentally ill commit acts of violence against others (gun or otherwise) at the same rate as the general population. No more, no less. With that in mind, if you want to keep guns out the hands of the mentally ill, you do it not because they're a threat to you. You do it because they're 4 to 5 times more likely to use the gun on themselves.

It's men who have a missing chip (mentally ill or not) who commit these acts. Men who have systematically reduced their victims to objects or something no more than an insect. Something that you give no more thought to than wiping shite off your shoe.

Whether these men are born or created, well that's a different discussion but none of them "snap". They evolve to this. They become or self actualize into this.

I don't presume to know what the answer is to it all but what I do know is you could take every single gun from the mentally ill in this country and the only real outcome is more of them would be alive, and maybe that's a good enough reason to deny them their rights. But make no mistake about it. No mass shooter does this because he has mental illness. He does this because, through a process and over time, he's convinced himself you're the problem and that isn't an illness, it's a defect in who he is as a person, as a man.

Remove guns from the criminal minded, the aggrieved, the bitter and angry "victim", the empty vessel. Take them away from the man with the "missing chip". figure out how to do all that and you solve the problem

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Everyone else is abnormal.

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Hot take:

I really wish people would shut the frick up about mental illness every time kids get shot. We have a fricking MURDER problem in this country and everyone just wants to look for excuses.

You’re gonna sit here and tell me the US of A is more mentally ill than the rest of the civilized world? Cmon now. We have different laws and governance in this country and THAT is what allows deranged people to shoot kids.

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