Frink makes a point. 15-Love

I think that chart is pretty useless. It is looking at state level numbers. So x% of the population has been identified and reported as mentally ill. What percentage of non-suicide shooters are mentally ill? What percentage of mass shooters are mentally ill? Are they being identified?

Whether a mental health policy would help depends on how/if it is targeted.

Although the suicide/McCain voters thing makes sense, amirite?

I don’t imagine a lot of people are committing suicide with semiautomatic weapons so maybe the states with assault weapon bans have a low suicide rate for other reasons, which accounts for measured correlation.