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Mental Illness - Last Week Tonight


MLD Woody

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Oliver's gift is in his similes.

 

This clip (like his others) is full of them (yay!) but also interprets statistics incorrectly (not shocking).

Paraphrasing:

 

"We only discuss mental health after Mass Shootings - but less than 5% of gun violence is committed by people with no history of mental illness."

 

Well Ok, apples and oranges. Lets discuss what % of mass shootings are committed by people with a hx of mental illness. Or maybe lets not lump all gun violence into a discussion about mental illness (gang shootings, unknown/unsolved, self defense, etc.).

 

Lets also keep some perspective and understand that mass shootings are extremely rare in a country that has roughly the same amount of guns as it does people in it.

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