Liberals deny link between mental illness and mass shootings
 ThinkProgress ? @thinkprogress Reminder for NRA after they blame mental health system: People w/mental illness aren’t actually more prone to violence thkpr.gs/VMG6mS
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Consider the following list of infamous gunmen:
Newtown, Conn., shooter Adam Lanza Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui Aurora, Colo., shooter James Holmes Tuscon, Ariz., shooter Jared Loughner Columbine High School shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold It is very likely that all six of these gunmen were all — wait for it — mentally ill.
At the time of the Newtown, Conn., shooting, Lanza’s mother reportedly was on the verge on committing her troubled son to a mental health hospital. Prior to his shooting at Virginia Tech, Seung-Hui was declared mentally ill by a Virginia special justice. Holmes sought help from three mental health experts prior to his deadly shooting in Aurora, Colo. His lawyers claim he has an unspecified mental illness. Loughner has schizophrenia. Eric Harris was seeing a psychiatrist and was prescribed antidepressants. An analysis of Klebold’s diaries indicated that he was “ suicidally depressed.” We know, we know. You’re as shocked as we are.
Mark Follman, a writer for the left-wring magazine Mother Jones, examined 62 mass shootings. He concludes that ”[a] majority were mentally ill” and “[a]cute paranoia, delusions, and depression were rampant among them.”
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