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Even assuming your observational study of women drivers was in any way shape or form accurate (hint: it's not), isn't it amazing that despite all the distractions, women still cause accidents at a lower rate than men! That's why your insurance premiums are so high. Data, man. Data that reflects the general

Jackass driving is a self-selected trait. Why do you think men get in more accidents? It's not because they are men. It's because they drive more aggressively. And you know, they can change that.

Well, homie, maybe if men didn't cause so many accidents, they wouldn't die in so many accidents. See how that works? And if men caused fewer accidents, they also wouldn't have such high insurance premiums! Guess what - causing fewer accidents is in your hands! Stop driving so aggressively and stop texting, and

Here is a link to some profiles of mass murders. Notice how many motivations there are in addition to mental illness. Our desire to classify these people as mentally ill is mostly a desire to separate ourselves from them and the horror they caused. Unfortunately, that's not really constructive since an emphasis on

TIm McVeigh was not mentally ill. You have no reason to assume this shooter was.

"But it seems fair to say that if someone is willing to this just for the sake of "revenge" against strangers, there are some fairly atypical brain processes occurring*."

"Are you insinuating that a mentally healthy person would go out and slaughter children?"

We don't know that he was mentally ill. Please stop with the armchair diagnoses.

That's the wrong Facebook profile.

The belief that mental illness is a factor is mostly a distancing tactic. Fact is, most shooters are not mentally ill, and most mentally ill people are not shooters.

The comments are hitting the mental illness square.