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This past weekend was a weekend we would like to forget.
Eleven people died at a synagogue in Pittsburgh while celebrating the life of a new baby.
A few states over, in Kentucky, two African-American people were murdered in a Kroger grocery store after the shooter tried to get into an African American church and couldn’t find a way in. That was a mass attack probably stopped because of locked doors.
Go back in time past this weekend and names like Parkland, Pulse Nightclub, and the Las Vegas concert attack along with too many others pop into our minds. When is it going to stop and how are we going to stop tragedies like this from happening again? Also, have you noticed that a large number of mass shootings are racially motivated? Including the synagogue this weekend and the potential church incident that ended at Kroger?
Those are some of the questions we will answer on Thursday night during our Mental Health & Wellness Call at 9 pm Eastern/6 pm Pacific. Call information is below.
Our topic this week is Mental Health & Mass Shootings: mentally ill or just bad people?
How quickly does someone throw out that obviously, this person was mentally ill? Yeah. “Obviously”, they’re mentally ill. There’s no way that a person can simply be full of hate and that hate manifests itself in unspeakable ways. Note a tone of sarcasm
Then the media, and with my credentials, I can be considered media, runs with the mental health angle until everyone in America, if not the world, believes that all people who commit mass shootings did it because they’re mentally ill.
I don’t always like being considered part of the media. Or having a mental illness.
Please join us this Thursday for an open discussion on a touchy subject. It immediately follows the political activism call, so we may have a really fun group.
I’ve already hinted at my feelings, but I’ll share my thoughts on this extremely disturbing subject and then everyone will get a chance to share.
I’m looking forward to speaking with you.
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