Newsmax is reporting:
Contrary to what many believe, a new study finds that mental illness isn t a factor in most mass shootings or other types of mass murder. The findings from this potentially definitive study suggest that emphasis on serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia or psychotic mood disorders, as a risk factor for mass shootings is given undue emphasis, leading to public fear and stigmatization, study co-leader Gary Brucato said in a Columbia University news release. He s an associate research scientist in the university s Department of Psychiatry in New York City.
Brucato and his colleagues analyzed 1,315 mass murders of all types that occurred worldwide and found that only 11% of all mass murderers (including shooters) and only 8% of mass shooters had serious mental illness.