this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
10 points (100.0% liked)
United States | News & Politics
4015 readers
143 users here now
Welcome to !usa@midwest.social, where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.
If you’re interested in participating, please subscribe.
Rules
Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech.
No memes/pics of text
Post news related to the United States.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I doubt it, mass shooters are predominantly right wing white men — you know, the types that absolutely would not be medicated anyway.
that's the point.
leftwing or rightwing, unmedicated mental instabilities work the same way.
I'm inclined to believe that people with unmedicated mental illness in households filled with love and understanding will be wildly different from those in households filled with hate and ignorance.
That isn't to say that someone with unmedicated/undiagnosed mental illness in a home filled with love won't become violent, just that one will spur someone on to violence whereas the other won't (at least that's what I think, obviously violence is a trait many people come by naturally).
mental illness and instability doesn't care what kind of environment you live in.
if your brain decides to flood your body with cortisol and your heart dumps in adrenaline, you're going to become violent because your senses, and your brain, identifies everything as a threat which triggers fight or flight.
a cornered animal always bites, and we are animals.
An animal is not always cornered, however. Fight or flight does imply the option of flight.