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b_b  ·  4387 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Some Facts about Guns and Mass Shootings in the US

Mental illness may not correlate with gun violence due to the number of drug and domestic murders, but I bet it correlates to mass murder. My colleague thinks that most mass murderers are likely undiagnosed schizophrenics, given that they are so often 16-24 year old males, a demographic known for onset of symptoms. We need to change our privacy laws to allow background checks to include mental illness checks.