Makes sense. Many of them are not guilty or killed for understandable reasons

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There are more guns than people in the US (not evenly distributed though). That's the highest rate in the world, 4 times as many as Canada, 8 times Australia, and 24 times the United Kingdom.

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Great way to give blackwater business since the loggers would then hire mercenaries with guns

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And a large body of research counters that premise given the number of those mentally ill who never murder or shoot others which is most mentally ill people. For example if you analyzed the 'Community Mental Health Support' Waiver or your states equivalent from the federally funded Home and Community Based Services program through CMS, you would presume to see more shootings or violent acts from individuals on that waiver given its requirements but that is not something that is observed given you would have a solid control group.

Willing to bet the proportion of psychopathic CEOs is higher than the proportion of psychopathic death row inmates

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This would seem to make a good bit of sense to anyone who doesn't think murder was invented in Western Europe in the 14th century. It's not like all the guns magically popped into existence in the last 20 years. Something else must necessarily be happening.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/depression-rates-by-country

Just one example.

Where's the data that links prescriptions, addictions or lack of community to violence and/or extremism?

There's plenty of extremism in Europe, even Sweden have a right-wing, populist government now. Poland had "LGBT Free" areas. Yet the murder rate in the USA is what, 10 times the rate of most European countries?

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Don't try to deflect... that's not what you said. Name-calling is the primary weapon of bigots!

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I don't have enough expertise to judge why the USA has such a high murder rate, i assume it's a bunch of factors. I'm sure environment plays a role, and ease of acquiring weapons that make killing relatively easy is also likely a part of it.

It's the formaldehyde that's in the straightener, and it's released as a gas while being applied to the hair. Formaldehyde is carcinogenic. Also in some of the keratin conditioners sold over the counter I've heard, but never fact checked.

Where's the data on that? People in the US are among the most unhealthy in the world, have some of the highest rates of anti anxiety, adderall and opioid prescriptions and very little community structure compared to European cultures. It's a breeding ground for extremism.

Because they had to make the headline sound exciting somehow. It's hard to present obvious facts as something really engaging without sensationalizing it

At least pyrolysis techniques can convert it into fuel beforehand.

It's part mental illness, partly environment. Basically people are more isolated now than ever before so they have less people to regulate their own behavior and so they become more extreme untill something happens. You are a product of your environment.

I suppose, except if it's an arranged marriage with people performing roels while not knowing each other (I guess).

Even the most "normal" person is not exactly a highly rational or compassionate creature all the time. Nobody has a perfect platonic human mind.

Normal people can experience problematic mental states briefly, or under extreme stress.

Mental illness (seems to my uninformed opinion at least) to be more about those who get "stuck" in states for dangerously long periods of time (perhaps even their whole life).

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The question for the criminal justice system is, if you take away blaming individuals as bad/immoral/evil people, what are we left with?

Instead of a system based on punishment and violence, it would focus on protecting society as a whole as the primary objective. Remove those that are an immediate danger, rehabilitate those who can be, and seclude those who can't.

The punitive nature of deterrence has shown over and over to be ineffective at actually reducing crime meaningfully. In fact, it exacerbates crime and hurts everyone else too. But people want to harm bad people, so we continue in a self destructive cycle.

Do spouses count?