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“In a misguided attempt to curb mass shootings, the administration wants to study whether monitoring people with mental illnesses(www.washingtonpost.com) could help predict violence. The proposal, which likely would violate the Fourth Amendment, focuses on using technology such as phones and smartwatches to detect whether people with mental illnesses are about to turn violent.
This approach is consistent with the narrative that quickly emerges after every mass shooting in the United States: “Maybe he was mentally ill.” Then Republicans call for mental health reform. Democrats quickly agree that we need mental health reform (independent of mass shootings) while calling for gun reform. And then nothing happens. Again.”
– American Academy of Family Physicians, Don’t Blame Mental Illness for Mass Shootings.
“Tenuous, at best. People who blame mass shootings on “the mentally ill” are usually reasoning backward from the act itself: the person just shot 20 unarmed strangers, so he must be “crazy.”
In fact, scientists find that only a small fraction of people with persistent mental distress are more likely than average to commit violent acts: patients with paranoid schizophrenia, which is characterized by delusional thinking and often so-called command hallucinations — frightening voices identifying threats where none exist.”
– NY Times, What Experts Know About People Who Commit Mass Shootings.
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