They decide to kill,” Opinion, May 21)The problem is that by legal standards, it’s usually not a mental health issue. The mass shootings committed due to racial hatred or by disaffected, self-absorbed young men are usually well-planned acts of evil, not unhinged acts of impulsive psychosis. Despite this, Republicans say the problem lies solely with mental illness, and that the incredibly easy access to guns is not to blame. Some of the schools in Santa Barbara County engage a nonprofit organization to check on the mental health status of school children. While “guns don’t kill, people do” may be true, people without guns cannot kill so effectively.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 29, 2022 01:36 UTC