Former FBI profiler contradicts Trump on role of mental health in mass shootings
Source: CBS News
Former FBI profiler Mary Ellen O'Toole contradicted President Trump's assertion that mental health is a major factor in mass shootings. "Mental health is not the problem," she told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett. O'Toole, now the program director for the Forensic Science Department at George Mason University, spoke with Garrett on this week's episode of "The Takeout" podcast.
After two mass shooting incidents last weekend, one in El Paso and another in Dayton, Mr. Trump pointed to mental health as one of the defining factors in mass shootings. "Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger. Not the gun," he said.
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But O'Toole says that most people who have mental health issues are nonviolent, and further, that mass shootings require the planning and foresight. Perpetrators, she said, "have to think with a certain degree of clarity."
"My experience has been, that these are individuals that, if there is a mental health issue, they still are able to function very strategically, and in a very cold-blooded and callous manner. So, mental health is not the problem," O'Toole said. She added that fewer than 25% of these gunmen are clinically diagnosed with mental health issues.
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She also tore apart the video game link in these mass murders.
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