It really isn't ridiculous at all when you look at it. I posted many links in the previous thread discussing the topic of mental health and shootings discussing and proving that most shootings in America are committed by people who are in fact, NOT mentally ill. Most shootings in percentage taken are committed in bulk more by Jealousy, ( scorned lover ) greed, ( killing over life insurance ect. ) gang involvement or affiliation, murdering ones spouse to get out of divorce or whatever, murder for hire, Robbery and things of that nature than the mentally ill could ever HOPE to commit... period. Take all the shootings and compile them together and statistically the mentally ill only account for 6-7% of violent crimes ( including pushing and shoving ) as I linked in that previous thread compared to non mentally ill violent crimes. Mental illness is not common, it is far less common than being mentally healthy, therefore, of course it is statistically impossible for mentally ill people to commit more gun crimes. Also, a lot ( Not all or even most ) of mentally ill people reside in institutions preventing them from committing more said crimes. The fact you can't argue with is that most shootings are done by non mentally ill people. Like I said, add gangs, jealousy, murder for hire, robberies, divorce, life insurance of their spouse and all that in there and tell me mentally ill people even scratch the surface of those gun crimes... :roll:
If you want to throw up "Well but but mass shootings" argument... Mass shootings don't even account for a fraction of the shootings that happen in America. They're a little tiny pee stain on the carpet of the mass blood spills of the real giant issue of mass amounts of individual murders and shootings that happen all over America every day... sadly. They are devastating, sad and they hit us and hurt... but they make up a tiny fraction of the shootings that happen in America... Sad, but true.
