Shooting at Northern Illinois University

This was the fourth campus shooting in a week!!! That is just absurd. You know, people, unfortunately, rush to judgment about people with mental illnesses based on media coverage of these incidents. Whenever you hear about a person with mental illness in the media, it's usually a result of some act of destruction and mayhem. Sadly, this deluge of TV, radio, and news coverage imprints into people's brains the association between mental illness and violence. So the stigma of mental illness persists even among highly educated segments of the population.

In Europe and many other parts of the world, where there are schizophrenics, they don't have 4 campus shootings a week. These tragedies are symptomatic of serious underlying societal problems that are specific to the US, such as the power of big pharma, the poor quality of "treatment" for people with mental illness, the horrible side effects of psychotropics, the FDA's lack of supervision of Big Pharma, the lack of universal healthcare, gun control, the lack of trust in social relations such to the competitive nature of our culture, and the outfall of capitalism. You will see that in many European nations where there is socialized healthcare, you don't hear about these kinds of shootings in all of Europe. If there are any, it's very rare. The discrimination against people with mental illness also leads consumers into isolation.