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by celdon25 1147 days ago
Because they don't have a second amendment? The comparison you should be paying attention to however is the rate of mass shootings within the US per year.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/mass-shootings-...

> While many mass shooters had mental-health problems, as the Mother Jones data shows, there is no reason to believe that there has been an increase in mental illness rates in the last several years that could help explain the rise in mass shootings. (In fact, federal research on the prevalence of severe mental illness shows a decrease in recent years.)

You can't rule out these things when you consider that delta-8-thc has only been found in noticeable amounts in marijuana since 2010 or so. That particular compound has been known to cause psychosis, which can cause other long-term cascading mental illness.

As a drug supporter I'm sure you've heard of the concept of a "bad batch"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4987131/table/T...