The point I'm trying to make is that blaming all of these shootings on mental illness is completely baseless. All it does is further stigmatize mental illness, and it does so by conflating people that, in all honesty, are just terrible, terrible people, with people who have mental illness. Combining that scapegoat with the fact that we, as a country, do absolutely nothing to treat mental illness, just makes life worse for those who actually do have mental illness.