As mentioned in other posts, there are many factors behind shootings, mental health, gun control and many others, this makes solving the problem efficiently and effectively significantly harder. Mental health is what lets individuals decide rationally and effectively. What's the issue with mental health? People of all ages have underlying problems that may seem unimportant, but this is what may possibly lead to a mental breakdown and poor decision making. Many times, these problems are created in the early ages and cause issues later on in life. Also, mental illnesses also hold a role in this system of issues. Depression is a good example in hereditary mental illnesses. In which doctors provided information on the presence of a gene that increases the likelihood of getting depression. Once again, people with these issues are subject to difficulties in rational decision making. A possible and simple way of aiding people with these problems could be implement and regulate school p
Mental illness is a vague term, holding an array of limitless possibilities. But what is mental illness? A mental illness is described as condition involving changes in behavior, thinking and emotion (or a combination of these). Many might also think that these are uncommon, in fact nearly 20% of adults experience some form of mental illness. But how does this entail with school shootings? Well, another common ground for criticism when debating about the shootings is mental health problems. President Donald Trump even went as far as to mention a mental health problem with criminal Nickolas Cruz in the Stoneman Douglas High school shooting. So how should this be treated? Send them to a psychologist? A Psychiatrist? In general terms, many young adults and teens develop these conditions (e.g. depression) throughout their childhood, and most never seek treatment, bottling up these emotions for years on end, you don't have to be a psychologist to know that that isn't good