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[Before ASND presents the evidence on this page that is critical to understand the role of mental illness in mass murders, it is also critical to understand that even if all the corrections proposed on this page are implemented, they will never stop all mass murders by the mentally ill.]
“Over half of those committing mass public shootings in the last 25 years saw mental health care professionals before their attack. Yet in not one single case were these mental health professionals able to identify these murderers as a danger to themselves or others.”
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“At least fourteen… school shootings [in the early 2000s] were committed by those taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs… [and] Between 2004 and 2011, there [were] over 11,000 reports to the U.S. FDA’s MedWatch system of psychiatric drug side effects related to violence. These include 300 cases of homicide…”
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“The U. S. Secret Service examined the ‘thinking and behavior of the 83 American [mass] attackers and near-lethal approachers’ and identified eight major motives for their attacks or planned attacks. What topped the list? Attackers desired ‘To achieve notoriety or fame.’”
https://clayjones.net/2022/05/active-shooters-evil-infamy-and-symbolic-immortality/
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“What people misunderstand about mass shooters is that they are more suicidal than homicidal. To do something of this nature, you have to no longer care whether you live or die. The action of taking other people’s lives in the process of killing themselves is a way for them to grab attention on the way out…”
https://nypost.com/2022/05/27/we-overlook-a-significant-factor-in-mass-shootings-fatherlessness/
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“Research shows that a disproportionate number of criminal defendants and incarcerated people suffer from various forms of mental illness and substance abuse. Federal and state criminal justice systems recognize that incarceration alone is not a complete answer to the challenges posed by untreated mentally ill people. The traditional prison setting does not account for the needs of those struggling with their mental health… Mentally ill people who try to get help are often turned away. They are not taken in for evaluation and support and treatment. Instead, they are frequently just handed a bottle of pills and sent on their way. This plays into the homeless problem we have. The majority of the homeless people in America are mentally ill. Many are also drug-addicted. Yet regular, helpful, and effective treatment is not available. Instead of turning a blind eye to this and focusing on guns, we must get to the root cause of the problem. We must address mental health and dismiss the appeals to privacy rights from the people who refuse to allow these mentally ill people to be taken in and treated for their illness… We need laws passed by Congress that allow federal funding for effective mental health support nationwide. States need to enact laws that make these mentally ill individuals subject to sequestration from the general public so they can be treated and so the public can be protected… The problem is that mentally ill prisoners sent to jail or to prison do not get the treatment they need. Even prisoners who were on medication before being arrested and incarcerated don’t continue to get their medications once they land in jail. Instead of routing mentally ill people who commit crimes to jail, we should route them into a system where they can get support and treatment.“
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/06/the_root_cause_of_gun_violence_and_how_to_fix_it.html
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Deinstitutionalization:
“During the last 40 years of the 20th century, more than 750,000 people were released from mental institutions, because liberals had declared that would be better for society. With thousands of criminally insane people walking the streets, the numbers of mass shootings increased dramatically 1960–2000. Since then, they have increased even more. In many of those shootings, the killer clearly was deranged.”
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Grave Consequences of the Deinstitutionalization Movement
Another leftist-created failure
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‘Deinstitutionalization’: Mass Murder and Untreated Madness
http://pjmedia.com/blog/deinstitutionalization-mass-murder-and-untreated-madness/?print=1
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Closing Mental Institutions Made Us More Vulnerable to Mass Shootings
http://dailysignal.com/2018/02/28/closing-mental-institutions-made-us-vulnerable-mass-shootings/amp/
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“After years of [liberals] destroying [America’s] mental health care system, leaving it in ruins, as a national disgrace, cases of undiagnosed and untreated mental illness are to blame for the horrific episodes of violence that have made headlines and wrongly fueled gun control legislation. This is true for Jared Lee Loughner, who shot Congressman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona. It is true for James Holmes, the man accused of murdering 12 people in a Colorado movie theatre. It is true for Adam Lanza, the man who murdered 20 children and 6 adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Dylan Quick reportedly fantasized about killing people by stabbing them since he was a child… Take all the guns away. Take all the knives away. The number of victims of murders with no apparent motive — born of under-treated, poorly treated or untreated mental illness — will be reduced not one bit. Because there will still be cars, and poisons, and hammers, and axes that can be used to inflict horrible injuries. The worst episode of school violence, back in 1927, claimed the lives of 38 children, and it involved explosives, not guns or knives. [Politicians] either fix things, do nothing or harm needed efforts. Those who would control weapons, instead of mental illness, are in the third category.”
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[Before ASND examines the legitimate issue of mentally deranged mass murderers, the following items are critically important issues to consider as well.]
Stop Mistaking Evil for Mental Illness
“… what was once considered evil or criminal, or at least bad behavior, is now considered [at least by liberals, to be] sickness; what once was considered sickness is now considered [at least by liberals, to be] normal and healthy; and what was once considered normal, wise, or moral behavior is now punished by our ‘enlightened’ [liberal] law.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/02/stop_mistaking_evil_for_mental_illness.html
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Prominent Psychiatrist: ‘Demonic possession is real and victims seeking exorcism should not be ignored’
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270268/why-left-loves-and-hates-science-daniel-greenfield
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Nikolas Cruz Says ‘Demons’ Told Him How to Execute Victims at Florida High School
[See, also… https://anotherslownewsday.wordpress.com/about/religion/occultism/demonic-possession/ ]
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Highland Park Shooter Bobby Crimo Is Tied the Occult
[Some psych reports on mass murderers which rule out supernatural, demonic influence are likely willful ignorance because many pshych professionals are also atheists who are unwilling to even examine evidence for theism . But willful ignorance in professional evaluation is also intentional fraud. ASND’s evidence-based point here is that there is significant evidence in favor of significant supernatural, demonic influence in at least some mass murder cases (as well as other social maladies, but those are addressed elsewhere on ASND’s site). Until this evidence is objectively and publicly analyzed in the peer-reviewed psych literature, we are attempting to fight an enemy — at least some of the time — that we refuse to even acknowledge.]
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Psychological & Psychiatric Fraud:
Psychiatric Failure in Confronting Mass Murderers
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FBI finds gunman in Dayton mass murder was obsessed with violence
http://news.trust.org/item/20190806225836-tbkgw
[ASND, then, has to ask, “Why isn’t ‘obsession with violence‘ classified by pshychiatrists as a mental disorder?” The answer to that question may be found in the following citation.]
“The bottom line here is that all of this so-called mental health expertise is, with a very few exceptions, a scam. The ranks of psychiatrists and psychologists are filled with incompetents who have no business deciding whether or not a mentally ill person should be hospitalized…”
https://pjmedia.com/trending/after-thousand-oaks-its-time-to-dethrone-the-mental-health-experts/
[While ASND would disagree with the previous article’s wording “with a very few exceptions,” there clearly are examples of psychological and psychiatric fraud involving a wide variety of psychological and psychiatric maladies, including mass murders.]
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“The most important aspect of preventing gun violence is making as sure as reasonably possible that psychotic, significantly mentally ill, intoxicated, and mentally unstable persons not have immediate access to guns and get prompt psychiatric attention and treatment… they, like ‘Normal’ persons who are intoxicated and enraged, should not possess guns… One confounding problem is the incomplete understanding of temporary mental instability of otherwise ‘normal persons’, mental illness in general, severe mental illness, and effective treatment.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/11/dealing_with_gun_violence_and_mental_illness.html
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[There are other potential dangers associated with the abuse of “mental illness” diagnoses, such as the assumption that all mental illness risks violence.]
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“… the vast majority of people with mental disorders do not engage in violence, and the proportion of overall risk of violence attributable to mental disorders is small.”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/1674804
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“Persons with severe personality disorders, while socially dysfunctional, are not technically psychotic but can be very dysfunctional. They do pose severe problems and a great expense for American society…. America faces an epidemic of severe personality disorder problems. Particularly young adult, disaffected, alienated, socially isolated, angry males preoccupied with guns and violent videogames. Some of these individuals even impulsively defy and attack police. Young angry, alienated, and rejected teenagers can be dangerous and prone to violence, even mass murder. But they are not suffering from diagnosed major psychotic mental illness. They are often found however under the psychiatric umbrella. Their acting out behavior often gets labelled ‘behavior disorder’… Persons with a personality or character disorder are commonly in denial about their… destructive thoughts and behavior. They in essence are unaware or barely aware of the psychological skin in which they have lived in for most of a life… When confronted, they often blame the messenger who presented the bad news to them. According to people with severe personality or character disorder, the police who confront them, the boss who fires them, or spouse that leaves them, are the problem… Few psychotherapists have enough strength of personality to persist and be helpful in their treatment. More aggressive treatment programs and legal mandates for treatment of these young people need to be creatively developed and implemented aggressively in our communities. Persistent follow-up with them is absolutely critical!”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/mental_disorders_and_the_second_amendment.html
[Now on to the primary purpose of this page…]
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Non-Responses to Known Cases of Mental Illness:
“[T]hese [mass murder] incidents are almost exclusively perpetrated by young men who have exhibited serious anti-social behavior. All of them break a slew of existing laws. All of them have either obtained guns illegally, or legally before having any criminal record. In many, if not most, cases, the shooter is already on the cops’ radar because he has threatened others or written insane, violent manifestos. In a study of mass shootings from 2008 to 2017, the Secret Service found that ‘100 percent of perpetrators showed concerning behaviors, and in 77 percent of shootings, at least one person – most often a peer – knew about their plan.’”
https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/25/dont-surrender-to-do-somethingism-on-guns/
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“… at least one third of mass killings are carried out by individuals with untreated serious mental illness…”
http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/storage/documents/backgrounders/smi-and-mass-homicide.pdf
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A disturbing number of perpetrators of school shootings and similar mass murders in our modern era were either on – or just recently coming off of – psychiatric medications.
http://www.wnd.com/2018/02/media-ignoring-1-crucial-factor-in-florida-school-shooting/
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Law Enforcement Seized Knives, Sword from Highland Park Shooting Suspect Three Years Before Rampage
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It’s clear the Uvalde, TX school shooter was mentally sick, so why wasn’t he stopped?
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Uvalde Gunman Had Disturbing Past; Carried Around Dead Cat, Was Nicknamed “School Shooter“
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Uvalde, TX Gunman Made Frequent Death Threats And Deranged Social Media Posts
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“The school system and his own family failed Ramos, who should have been red-flagged over his threatening, anti-social behavior, which included self-mutilation, animal abuse and shooting people with BB guns.“
https://www.westernjournal.com/teen-knew-shooter-drops-bomb-dont-see-covered-going-put/
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“[T]he National Institute of Justice, the research agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, and The Violence Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research center, completed what they called the most comprehensive study ever done of mass shootings in the U.S. from 1966 to 2019. Among the report’s conclusions:
Persons who committed public mass shootings in the U.S. over the last half century were commonly troubled by personal trauma before their shooting incidents, nearly always in a state of crisis at the time, and, in most cases, engaged in leaking their plans before opening fire…
Nearly half of individuals who engaged in mass shootings (48 percent) leaked their plans in advance to others, including family members, friends, and colleagues, as well as strangers and law enforcement officers [the Uvalde, TX school shooter did both]…
[T]he majority of mass shooters use handguns, and the overwhelming majority of school shooters do not legally purchase their weapons but instead took them from family members [the Uvalde, TX shooter did neither]…“
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-hard-truth-about-tougher-background-checks/
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Suspect in Catholic Supply store shooting called ‘psychotic’ in prior incident
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Maryland Rite Aid distribution center mass murderer diagnosed with mental illness in 2016
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Jacksonville gaming tournament shooter had been hospitalized for mental illness
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Texas man yelling ‘Jesus is coming’ while stabbing toddler is shot by neighbor trying to stop attack
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Suspected Danforth shooter’s family cites psychosis, ‘severe mental health challenges
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Parkland Shooter Asked for Help, but Was Denied Before Shooting
https://www.thedailybeast.com/parkland-shooter-asked-for-help-but-was-denied-before-shooting
[Yet, later, after his condition worsened (due to school district negligence)…]
Accused Florida School Shooter Refused To Continue Mental Health Services
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/02/27/confessed-school-shooter-refused-mental-health-services/
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From Prozac to Parkland: Are Psychiatric Drugs Causing Mass Shootings?
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“…Untreated mentally ill individuals are now responsible for at least… half of the mass killings such as those at Virginia Tech, Tucson, Aurora, Newtown, and the Washington Navy Yard.“
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/362678/print
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“The number of gun sales in the United States that were turned down for mental health reasons has increased by nearly sixfold over the last seven years…“
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gun-purchases-denied-mental-health-reasons-almost-sixfold
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Mental Health in Prisons
http://www.justicefellowship.org/key-issues/issues-in-criminal-justice-reform/issue-5
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The Impact of Mental Illness on Law Enforcement Resources
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Act on Mental Illness
http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/335869
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John’s Story: Post-1960s, Parents Struggle to Hospitalize Mentally Ill Children
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“There are unconfirmed reports (from an uncle and a neighbor) that Adam Lanza was medicated at the time of the attack, perhaps taking the anti-psychotic drug Fanapt. If that turns out to be the case, he will join a dismaying list of school shooters and other cold-blooded murderers who were taking or withdrawing from various psychotropic drugs.“
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/12/was_it_the_meds.html
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Drug-induced Murder: What Caused the Connecticut School Shootings?
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Two first-degree relatives of the Las Vegas massacre perp Stephen Paddock were highly likely psychopaths. That increases the probability of psychopathy in the perp.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/10/paddock_and_the_prostitute.html
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Paddock prescribed drug linked to violent outbursts
Use of anti-anxiety medication can sometimes trigger aggressive behavior, psychotic experiences
http://mobile.wnd.com/2017/10/paddock-prescribed-anti-anxiety-drug-in-june/
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“The genetics load the gun, personality and psychology aim it, and experiences [and/or psychoactive drugs] pull the trigger, typically,” Clemente said. He pointed out that Paddock’s father — a bank robber — was diagnosed a psychopath.”
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Investigators reportedly believe Las Vegas gunman had undiagnosed mental illness
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Another Slow News Day 