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Mental Illness Doesn't Provoke Mass Shootings
There's an insistence that mental illness is not provoked mass shootings. James Holmes, who something like 10 years ago or a little bit longer brought a shotgun and a handgun into a crowded movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and he murdered 12 people. He was just the right age to begin displaying psychotic symptoms. People with mental illness, severe mental illness, defecate on themselves and on the subway in New York. They sleep under bridges, they eat out of trash cans, they attack people, they hurt people. These things happen. That is a reality of mental illness, but it doesn't fit the picture of like normalization, right? Like the desire is to see mental ill people as
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