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Is there a link between mass shootings and mental illness ? - But when it comes to mental illness and violence, the public, media and policy-makers often have difficulty discerning fact from fantasy. Opinion polls ...

Actually, there is a clear link between mass shootings and mental illness - According to our research, at least 59% of the 185 public mass shootings that took place in the United States from 1900 through 2017 were carried out by people who had either been diagnosed with a mental disorder or demonstrated signs of serious mental illness prior to the attack. (We define a mass ...

Is There a Direct Link Between Mental Illness and Mass Shootings?   - Many other illnesses, people are allowed to talk about them and are accepted for that and even supported in that. Mental health tends to result in ...