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#283 — Gun Violence in America

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Sally Kohn: It's hard to think of someone being normal who would commit a mass shooting, but comparatively normal people can be deranged. When we're talking about a mass shooting like ivaldi or buffalo, these can have very different characters. She says it's totally possible for someone to be a white supremicist who decides to kill people for patently racest reasons. And yet, if you had your psychometric data on this person, you would not diagnose him as mentally ill right? she asks.

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