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James Alan Fox, author of Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder, argues that mass shooters will find a way to kill people no matter what the law is. He says: Tighter restrictions . . may help reduce America’s gun violence problem generally, but mass murder is unlike most other forms of violent conflict. Mass killers are determined, deliberate and dead-set on murder. They plan methodically to execute their victims, finding the means no matter what laws or other impediments the state attempts to place in their way.
Thus, one of the most effective ways to prevent future shootings is to focus on identifying and treating mental illness, not trying to change gun control laws. In a 2012 report Mother Jones analyzed the mass shootings that have happened in the United States since 1982 and found that the majority of the shooters were mentally ill and that many showed signs “Federal and state of it before they carried out the shooting. funding of critical For example, in 2011 Jared Lee mental health services Loughner killed thirteen people in a is under siege.
Former chief economist at the US Sentencing Commission John Lott says, “With just one single exception, every public shooting since at least 1950 “Tighter restrictions in the United States in which three or . . ”63 go to places where they know people will not be able to defend themselves. —James Alan Fox, author of Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder. Lott says, “If a violent criminal were ever stalking you or your family, would you put a sign in front of your home announcing that you didn’t own a gun?