Better access to mental health care in the US

This shooter was 19 and middle-class, not a burned out 40something who spent his life trying and failing to achieve the American dream. Many other infamous mass shooters (Columbine, Aurora, etc.) were similarly situated.

Saying “poor people of color aren’t driven to mass shootings because they had lower expectations in the first place” is really a concession that privilege plays a bigger role in these shootings than economics.

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