Summary: With the heightened tension on the right and the left with respect to the gun violence crisis in America the President is quick to blame mental illness, while many experts and critics on the left warn that mental health is not the fundamental problem and cause. But if we do not refer to the disturbances within the mind that lead up to an act of mass violence as part of a "mental illness," how are we supposed to characterize it? Mere unethical behavior? But not all breaches of ethics are the same. Is there any connection between severe lack of ethics and mental illness? What standards do we refer to reach such a conclusion? To the degree which we might associate gun violence with unethical behavior one question raised is whether or not the perpetrator of violence fully "knows" what he or she is doing is absolutely "unethical."For more about Public Comment visit the website: https://publiccommentpodcast.com/Listen to the Public Comment Podcast on Radio Public Subscribe to my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/seanoconnoressays/featuredVisit me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/publiccommentblogFollow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/publiccomment.blog/Tweet me at https://twitter.com/sopubliccommentConnect with me on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/soconnorwritingtutor/Email me at sean.publiccomment@gmail.com
