Want To Stop More Mass Killings? Don’t Assume Shooters Are Just Mentally Ill
What could have been done? What can be done now? These are the questions on most people’s minds after another senseless mass shooting, this one near the University of California, Santa Barbara, in Southern California by another loner who left a trail of online threats and violent fantasies the world is now reading in disbelief.
In many respects, these are the same questions that were raised and answered after the Sandy Hook grade school shooting in late 2013. Now though, the killer’s anger toward attractive women and other young men—especially non-whites—raises different issues about sexism, stereotyping and scapegoating. After Sandy Hook, the small universe of people who work at the crossroads of mental illness and government responses made numerous observations and suggestions about this type of angst and gun violence.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/dont-assume-shooters-are-just-mentally-ill
