INCONVENIENT FACTS: Mass shootings aren't becoming more common – and evidence contradicts stereotypes about the shooters.

Of the four inconvenient facts, three strike me as fairly clearly myths; the other - mental health - is, to me, not a myth. It strikes me as obvious that all mass shooters are nuts; but equally obvious that not all nuts are mass shooters. The problem is how to distinguish the former from the latter.

I think President Trump has roughly the correct idea, which is to use the 'gun control' hysteria to address the root causes (largely mental illness, in my opinion) more generally.

And that includes reopening mental hospitals (formerly insane asylums) and encouraging involuntary committment under judicial supervision.