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Bullshit. Mentally ill people rarely commit assassinations or mass shootings. That sort of thing requires planning and foresight; a degree of functioning in society that mentally ill people are rarely able to perform by definition.
The perpetrators might be "crazy" in a colloquial sense, but so is the typical right-wing celebrity.
Let's drop all the bipolar people off their meds at the same time. Things are going to be either clean as hell or dangerous af. You agitate someone who took YEARS to figure out the right combo of meds by taking it away, I promise you will be afraid for your life.
They want to fill up private prisons. People will either get violent, become homeless, or start self medicating with illegal drugs.
John Hinckley Jr.
I was thinking of that guy when I added the "rarely".
Still, how crazy was he? He fell in "love" with an actress after seeing her in a movie. Then he took a cue from that movie and tried to assassinate the US president Ronald Reagan to impress her. Crazy. Delusional. But how crazy is that really in comparison to, say, what the current US president believes and does?