[2aProtectsTheRest]

Exactly. Why bother wasting time looking at the tools used rather than the tools using them?

I saw somebody the other day on TV in a discussion over whether the Boulder shooter was mentally ill. Umm, he shot a bunch of people; I’d say he had a screw loose. If the Democrats actually cared about reducing violence in America, they’d get serious about mental health and actual poverty reduction (rather than handouts that build generational dependency).

[PROCON]

Certainly there is mental illness involved but I think we blame mental illness way too often when the reality is some people are evil and choose to do so. Evil has happened since the dawn of man.

Blaming one's mental illness takes responsibility away from the individual and places it on society.

People make bad choices, do bad things and should be held responsible for those choices.