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user-inactivated  ·  3088 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: June 12, 2016 Orlando Nightclub Shooting, discussion

    Epidemiologic studies show that the large majority of people with serious mental illnesses are never violent.

This is so bitterly, hilariously, obviously different than saying 'most mass shootings are perpetrated by people non compos mentis'.

Withal, in my life I have read a great many studies focusing on humans and the conclusion I have drawn more than any other is -- studying humans is flawed and difficult. I choose to fall back, as ever, on common sense.





OftenBen  ·  3088 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    on common sense.

Beg pardon?

My common sense says that anyone who draws a picture of my deity deserves immediate severe punishment.

Obviously.

user-inactivated  ·  3088 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    This is so bitterly, hilariously, obviously different than saying 'most mass shootings are perpetrated by people non compos mantis'.

Yes. You're right. That's the point. Call me dense, but I don't see your point.

If anything, the only thing I'm gathering from this is that you're pulling on your own readings of studies - which, I wholeheartedly agree are inevitably bound to be bias, fragmented, or otherwise - from these studies you've decided leave it to your own beliefs of common sense... which is a variable to culture?