'Perhaps people are so invested in the idea that mental illness could not be at play in the Uvalde, Texas, shooting because they simply want to keep the focus on gun control, where (I agree) it belongs,' writes Freddie DeBoer.
immediate aftermath of these tragedies
, with a vast majority of the tweets I’ve seen explicitly avowing that this shooting could never have been the product of insanity.considering the link between mental health and mass shootings, Quentin Fottrell of Marketwatch echoed a common sentiment, saying, “Bluntly linking mental health to gun violence can stigmatize the former.” Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut was more direct and less equivocal. “Spare me the bullshit of mental illness,”, echoing a fair swath of liberal opinion.
It was later revealed that as a grad student at the University of Colorado, Holmes had been flagged by both students and staff as suffering from mental illness and potentially dangerous. In fact, Holmes had gone so far as tobefore his attack, seeking help, but said he was disconnected after only nine seconds.
Holmes’ not guilty by reason of insanity plea was rejected by the jury, who found him guilty of hundreds of counts of murder and attempted murder, ensuring he would spend the rest of his life in a maximum-security prison rather than in a mental health facility. Prosecutors pushed for the death penalty, but Holmes’ life was spared, who said explicitly that they were not willing to sentence someone who was obviously deeply mentally ill to death.
An uglier potential reason is that these people support the mentally ill only as far as they can maintain a vision of them as entirely pure and blameless; their antipathy to “ableism” extends only so far as they are never put into a position where they must sympathize with people who have committed heinous acts. But this is no support at all.
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