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Mental health experts declined to commit Thousand Oaks gunman Ian David Long after April disturbance

Mental health experts declined to commit Thousand Oaks gunman Ian David Long after April disturbance

Posted on November 8, 2018

Discusses the Thousand Oaks gunman’s history of possible PTSD and the fact that there is not a link between mental illness and mass shootings. 

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