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 Originally Posted by Poopadoop
Not someone who's diagnostic criteria put 70% of the population in the nutjob category.
Who then?
Well....according to a stat I just found (cited below), 95% of shootings are committed by people WITHOUT a diagnosable mental illness. So....how is denying the rights of known nutjobs going to help?
Is that a statistical fact, and if so, where did you get it?
I actually heard it from a psychologist that I know. But a quick google search turns of shitloads of confirming results, including this one:
http://behavioralscientist.org/myth-...ass-shootings/
less than 5% of shootings are committed by people with a diagnosable mental illness. Like mentally healthy offenders, the mentally ill are far more likely to shoot people they know rather than strangers. The mentally ill are also far more likely to be victims of gun violence rather than perpetrators.
EDIT: Here's some more
https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Publ...Reporting-Laws
In fact, people with mental illness are more likely to be the victims of violence.
https://www.apa.org/advocacy/gun-vio...erceptions.pdf
persons with serious mental illness are significantly more likely to be the victims of violence than to perpetrate it
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