Mass Shootings and Mental Illness




KQED's Forum show

Summary: There have been several high-profile mass shootings recently. Twelve people were slain in the theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, a gunman killed six in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and in April, an angry former student killed seven people at Oikos University in Oakland. Forum discusses mental illness and mass shootings. Can anything be done to predict and prevent such violent acts, and what do we know about what causes people to commit them?