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"But in the broader sense, Travis Reinking planned his drive from Illinois to Nashville to the Antioch Waffle House, his road was paved by a system that not only validated the rights of men like himself to own firearms and carry them in public, but cast armed white men as moral responses to Black aggression-a system that ensured that white Americans remained disproportiantely armed and unduly dangerous as a result"

“Mental health emerged as another front in public health’s engagement with guns and shootings…the meanings of ‘mental illness’ in connection to mass shootings became even more contested. That was because mental illness functioned as a narrative that diagnosed the potential motives of shooters, but papered over the contested pathologies of the social and political systems that surrounded their crimes”