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Re:When the Hospital Fires the Bullet by DanBC on Saturday February 20, 2016 @07:56PM (#11142771)
Mental illness is not a predictor of violent behaviour. You're falling for (probably) conjunction fallacy and confirmation bias. You find newspaper reports because those incidents are rare compared to all other murder; you use those newspaper reports (of rare events) to say "look how common it is".

(The SOMD link isn't loading for me) Note that all but one of your links involve drug abuse. Here the violence isn't due to mental illness, but to drug abuse. Drug & Alcohol addiction is a predictor of violent behaviour. (Much stronger than mental illness.)

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Re:When the Hospital Fires the Bullet by yummyfajitas on Saturday February 20, 2016 @09:26PM (#11142999)
Although I doubt you are correct, I didn't actually make any claims about mental illness. You seem to be arguing against something I didn't say.
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Re:When the Hospital Fires the Bullet by DanBC on Sunday February 21, 2016 @06:20AM (#11144091)
This is a thread about mental illness, and you are using slurs associated with mental illness ("crazed"). If you're not talking about mental illness you probably need to be more careful with your lazy use of stigmatising language.

When many people keep misunderstanding what you say perhaps the problem is with your poor communication style, not their comprehension.

> Although I doubt you are correct

Your inability to provide a cite has been noted.

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Re:When the Hospital Fires the Bullet by yummyfajitas on Sunday February 21, 2016 @07:20AM (#11144222)
A quick google search suggests various mental illnesses (bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and the catch-all "serious mental illness" category) are strongly linked with violence.

http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/resources/consequence...

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/mental-illn...

The latter article also describes a study suggesting "matched controls" (read: siblings of mentally ill people) are also disproportionately violent which is interesting.

Many citations are provided therein. I didn't provide it because it's completely tangential to the main point, namely that there exist crazed and violent people who should be tazed and tied up. I'll note you didn't provide a citation either.

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