Do Most Mass Shooters Have Schizophrenia?

For quite some time, it has been part of the public narrative that mass shootings largely stem from the individual committing the shooting experiencing psychiatric illness, particularly schizophrenia. A new study has been recently published in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology titled, ’Domestic Mass Shooters: The Association with Unmedicated and Untreated Psychiatric Illness’ (link below). We found many issues with this study, which we discuss in this video. We also discuss the harmful ways in which this study has been picked up in the media. It is important to understand that while untreated mental illness may play a role in violent crimes such as mass shootings, this type of violence and mass shootings are a product of our culture and society. We shed light on the fact that sex and race and access to guns were even larger predictors of mass shootings. Also the inherent component of alienation and disillusionment from societal groups. That aside, if we consider that yes, untrea