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Originally Posted by bob-loblaw
Some of the teachers I had over the years were a little off their rockers.
They have the same predisposition to mental health issues as all human beings do, so giving the guns can't make the situation any better.
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I'm a little bit uneasy about how mental health issues = school shooter. This is a gun nut talking point that we're all starting to accept as fact. It's definitely a fact that more guns = more shooters, but there is no way to make everyone mentally healthy so it's really really really stupid to promote more access to mental health help as the solution. It's less access to guns that is the only solution.
Also, poor mental health doesn't lead someone to become a shooter, anyway. It may factor in to some of the shootings, but we can't predict who will be a shooter and there is no guarantee we could fix people with that propensity, anyway. And we also can't jail people for having the propensity to be a shooter.
The biggest thing is we shouldn't be stigmatizing people with mental health issues as being prone to becoming shooters. So many people cope with mental health problems and a statistically insignificant amount of them shoot up schools.