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https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-06-15/many-us-mass-shooters-had-untreated-mental-illness-study
Existing scientific evidence paints a complex—if incomplete—picture of the causes of mass shootings and other acts of serious violence. Until recently, a congressional ban on federal funding for most gun-related research has prevented scientists and scholars from conducting the full range of interdisciplinary studies that would provide a better understanding of the problem and point the way to effective solutions.8

In what follows, we outline a four-part strategy for future research in mental health and complementary disciplines that will broaden our understanding of these tragic events and how to effectively prevent them.

https://journals.lww.com/hrpjournal/fulltext/2021/01000/mental_illness,_mass_shootings,_and_the_future_of.6.aspx

Acts of mass murder implicate the psychologies of perpetrators. A better understanding of the reasons behind their behaviors—a kind of “rationality within irrationality”10—remains important to the hope of preventing such crimes in the future.11 Retrospective analyses suggest that a nontrivial minority of high-profile mass shooters demonstrated clinical symptoms, including paranoia, depression, and delusions, at some point in their lives.12–14 Still, the assumption that mass shootings are driven solely or even primarily by diagnosable psychopathology stretches the limits of mental health expertise. It also sets up a false expectation that advancing neuroscience and better therapies to manage psychiatric symptoms will provide “the answer” to solving gun violence. There is no existing or forthcoming unified theory of impaired brain functioning or of cognitive, mood, or behavioral dysregulation that could adequately explain mass shootings or multiple-victim gun homicides.


Symptoms of mental illness by themselves rarely cause violent behavior and thus cannot reliably predict it.......

Mental health is the biggest problem.