Every book Mark Follman recommended on podcasts

“I do say I think in in in a general statement in the introduction to the book that there is quite a bit of research um evidence-based research that that tighter gun restrictions in states that have them have been effective for reducing gun violence.”

“But this is actually a very big myth about mass shootings too that persists and and something that I explore quite in depth in in trigger points that um the idea that mental illness is what causes these attacks.”

“One thing that I learned early on in doing my research on this subject and for for trigger points was I was talking to a longtime practitioner in Colorado, actually in the Coline community, uh, a psychologist, who told me that, you know, when they're doing threat assessment work and they're talking to a person of concern, especially a young”

“Yeah, and I wrote about that case extensively in in Trigger Points. I mean, that that is a a really good case study in terms of behavioral warning signs that were missed or misunderstood.”

“And I go deep into some cases in the book as you know that sort of show how this process works.”

“um and that's a story of history that I tell in the book that was really kind of a hidden history that I discovered researching the book.”

“I tell it in the book.”

“Well, actually, I mean, this is something else I wrote about in the book. It was a discovery in the research through that period.”

“And um in trigger points, I I categorize these in kind of eight areas.”

“Um, one specific example, a case I I write about in Trigger Points is a a high school kid in Oregon who”

“at least at the time that I was um finishing the research for trigger points um the probability of um being shot in a a shooting at a school was something like one in two million.”