Another Mass Shooting in the Good Ol' USA

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Originally Posted by finnbow

No, he didn't. He, a Director of Forensic Psychiatry and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and his co-author, Editor in Chief Emeritus of Psychiatric Times, concluded, based upon their experience and outside studies, that a fixation upon motivation is not the right tack to take. In another study, the FBI wholeheartedly agreed:

[I]In fact, a recent FBI report on 63 active shooters (2000-2013) found that only 25% (n = 16) of subjects had ever had a mental illness diagnosis; and of those, only 3 had a diagnosis of a psychotic disorder.11 .....
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Correct. The FBI counted individuals who were tagged with a clinical diagnosis. I also provided you, in an earlier post, link to research that was done recently (which you apparently ignored) on the backgrounds of shooters that found that of the shooters that sought psych help, many were either misdiagnosed or not diagnosed despite evidence to the contrary.

So, one looked at others' studies, or did a meta-analysis, and drew a conclusion based on available data, which may have been flawed or incomplete. The other study actually reviewed the background of each shooter plus their diagnostic histories.

I think I'll stick with the latter. I'll also stick with the reports from the other two docs who have studied shooter and shooting incents specifically for years, and determined that it's possible to profile shooters and intervene before its too late.

YMMV...