Mental Illness Doesn’t Pull the Trigger

Making sense of senseless violence.

Photo by Gerson Martins on Unsplash

When I first came up with the idea for this article, there hadn’t been a notable mass shooting in a bit (read: a few weeks). The week I finished it there were three of them. In all honesty, there were probably more, but these three got the most attention.

I had intended to publish this at a more timely moment, but for various reasons…