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Stop Denying That Mass Shooters Can Be Mentally Ill
TALK ABOUT IT
We don’t know what motivated the Texas school shooter. But it’s foolish and unhelpful to pretend mental illness can’t factor into senseless violence.
Freddie deBoer
Published
May 25 2022
2:43PM EDT
opinion
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