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pionear posted...

Was it something Jen said? Didn't get a chance to see it.

She quoted the "it's believed he had mental health issues" line from the article and responded with "he must have been white." Presumably, somebody particularly fragile marked it for being racist, as opposed to being very obvious commentary on how the narrative around mass shooting tends to blame broad demographics when the shooter belongs to a minority (see: the transphobia surrounding that one in Nashville), but infer "mental health issues" or "troubled individuals" when it's a white dude.

potdnewb posted...

mental health is completely separate from gun control

The problem is mentally ill people with guns (at least as pertains to mass shootings). You're never going to be able to fix all the mental illness, so part of addressing this problem has to be controlling people's access to guns on the basis of their mental health. There also needs to be better mental health care, which I think goes without saying, but this idea that there's no point in addressing access to guns while working toward that goal is obviously nonsense.