Thelma Harper wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:23 pm
Lemons wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:16 pm
Thelma Harper wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 4:17 pm
Sounds more like from a place of hate and anger, but that can lead to or be a symptom of mental illness I guess.
Does the United States have a much larger population of mentally ill people than the rest of the world? Because this isn’t happening in any other country.
According to the government site on mental health (and anywhere else)
“ Most people with mental illness are not violent and only 3%–5% of violent acts can be attributed to individuals living with a serious mental illness. In fact, people with severe mental illnesses are over 10 times more likely to be victims of violent crime than the general population.”
If gun violence was only committed by someone with a mental illness you would think the country would guarantee treatment for anyone needing it.
https://www.mentalhealth.gov/basics/men ... yths-facts
This guy had a seriously fucked up childhood. I can see an angry adult from that. But 3 - 5% of how many violent acts?
All violent acts committed. If there were 100 violent acts committed then between 3 to 5 of them were committed by people with mental illness.
There’s a study I’ll linked that states “
. Overall, the population-attributable risk fraction of patients was 5%, suggesting that patients with severe mental illness commit one in 20 violent crimes.“
That means we would have 19 out of every.20 violent crimes committed by people without illness.
Even though it’s uncommon with people who have mental illness to commit violence, some factors that would contribute to violence would be substance use, childhood abuse, untreated major trauma issues.
You’re right, his seriously fucked up childhood must have pushed him over the edge.
But the cases that get all the news coverage makes it seem like all gun murders are caused by mental illness and that’s far from true. Pro gun people and lawmakers say “mental illness” is the problem all the time but there’s been nothing done and gun violence is only getting worse.
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10 ... 163.8.1397