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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by Damogran6 on Thursday May 26, 2022 @09:20AM (#31517989)
That doesn’t seem to be a correlative factor. How would medically treating depression increase gun volence?
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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by artificialLimbs on Thursday May 26, 2022 @10:14AM (#31518568)
Go find out how many of these shooters were taking these drugs.

Edit: In case you're busy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3513220/

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by tenacious_tuna on Thursday May 26, 2022 @05:33PM (#31523622)
Is there not selection bias in this? That people being treated for mental illness have high incidence of mental illness?
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