Transgender people are mentally I’ll.
Only mentally I’ll people shoot up schools.
Therefore (implied) we should be on er Ed about transgender violence.
Really now?
The vast majority of mass school shootings have been white males. Not transgender people. What people are doing is using these deaths to feed and encourage public hate directed at transgender people, with no basis in facts.
As of July 2022, when this article was written, there were already 300 mass shootings.
Findings from the Columbia database help dispel the myth that having a severe psychiatric illness is predictive of who will perpetrate mass murder.
www.columbiapsychiatry.org
Are people with mental health disorders more likely to commit mass shootings or mass murder?
The public tends to link serious mental illnesses, like schizophrenia or psychotic disorders, with violence and mass shootings. But serious mental illness—specifically psychosis—is not a key factor in most mass shootings or other types of mass murder. Approximately 5% of mass shootings are related to severe mental illness. And although a much larger number of mass shootings (about 25%) are associated with non-psychotic psychiatric or neurological illnesses, including depression, and an estimated 23% with substance use, in most cases these conditions are incidental.
Additionally, as we demonstrated in our paper, the contribution of mental illness to mass shootings has decreased over time. The data suggest that while it is critical that we continue to identify those individuals with mental illness and substance use disorders at high risk for violence and prevent the perpetration of violence, other risk factors, such as a history of legal problems, challenges coping with severe and acute life stressors, and the epidemic of the combination of nihilism, emptiness, anger, and a desire for notoriety among young men, seem a more useful focus for prevention and policy than an emphasis on serious mental illness, which leads to public fear and stigmatization.
We assume that most school shooters are mentally ill, because of their actions or that mentally I’ll people are more likely to commit mass shootings but it is not as clear as that.