Mass shooting at Nashville Christian elementary school

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Agreed.

How many autistic ppl have been implicated in mass shootings?
Just saying.

I think it is more pertinent to point out that "Mental Illness" is mostly the cause of mass shootings.

It doesn't surprise me that this has entered the arena.

Agreed.

Looks like the latest mass shooter is autistic again. How long before we get stereotyped

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... order.html

Yes.

It was rare for this sort of thing to make the news when I was growing up, when it did Bob Geldorf wrote a song about it and it was a number 1 hit single.

I'm of the opinion that anti-depressants and other pills being given to kids at a very young age has quite a lot to do with it, but it is also very disturbing seeing what's happening with vulnerable people being radicalised into extreme politics and hate. There is a massively disproportionate amount of people being arrested in connection with antifa who are trans and/or have drug problems.

Three 9 year olds shot dead. Good grief, my thoughts are with their families.

Interesting development:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/28/opinions ... index.html

On a related note. I know this will be an extremely unpopular/controversial opinion, but I think it's high time progressives finally admit the deinstitutionalization movement started as part of the Johnson administration's Great Society program has been an abject failure.

Art instructor says Nashville school shooter was ‘suffering’ in recent social media posts

They got the first part right, deinstitutionalizing, but fumbled providing services to those whom they deinstitutionalized. As if this surprised anyone.

Oh yes, totally.. if you mean people are naming their guns "Mental Illness," then I completely agree. In those cases, 100%, "Mental Illness," is mostly the cause of mass shootings. (Because it's the guns. Everywhere has mental illness, ~only the USA has more guns than people.)

I see this as an attempt to villanize autistic people. Is there any wonder most autistic people choose not to identify they are autistic?

The shooter was only described as "autistic" (and then it seems only by the media ). This has already been debunked by family members.

The two sources are Richard Cook who was Hale’s high school graphic design teacher and a unnamed source “close to the family”
So far much more attention is being paid Hale’s trans identity then Hale’s autism. This is not surprising as trans identity is the culture war issue of the moment.

But in many of the high profile mass killing incidents the killer has been identified as autistic. We have the Sandy Hook shooter, The Parkland High School shooter, The Incel who ran over people in Toronto and others. Too many to be ignored

As said many many times Autism does not cause mass shootings. Autistic people are more likely to be victims of violence. Autistic people often have co morbid mental illnesses due to mistreatment and frustration with traits.

Guns don’t cause mass shootings, but they are a factor. You can’t have mass shootings without guns.

During the 60s and 70s America had loads of guns available. High school students brought weapons to school. Shooting/Rifle and pistol clubs were as common as glee clubs. There were plenty of drugs and mental illness. But these incidents were rare, “mass shooting” was not in the vernacular. There was plenty of gun violence but it was not random. Domestic incidents, street crime, mass shootings were gang related.

So what has changed?
The rates of mental illness has skyrocketed in general. Autistics are particularly vulnerable due to more sensory stimulation and more social expectations.

There were “Assault weapons” but kids did not have them, they could not afford them. Unless you were a collector or in s gang there was no reason to have them, people generally were just not going around massacring strangers.

The big difference doing a random mass shooting was not a thought. There were few examples to give people the idea that this is a thing to do.


If you post some links where Hale being autistic is denied that would be helpful.