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Mental illness has been shown to not even be a predicting factor in most cases.
Domestic violence towards women seems to be the biggest factor of most mass shooters. Most mass shooters are not insane. Most are emotionally unstable, insecure, angry, jealous men.
If we actually enforced the laws we have on the books and prevented perpetrators of domestic violence from obtaining firearms...most importantly arresting and prosecuting those men who tried to buy firearms after having been barred from legally owning them with the same force and severity that we would prosecute someone for engaging in attempted murder, I think we would see an incredible drop-off in mass shootings in our country.
If ever there was a crime that should carry the harshest mandatory minimum sentence, it should be for the attempted purchase or attempt to obtain a firearm when one has a domestic violence conviction on his record. Some wife beater attempting to buy an Ruger Mini or AR-15 should get 20 years.