Some might say that gun violence is a mental illness, according to the Washington Post "It seems intuitive that anyone who commits a mass shooting must have a mental illness, but that's a misuse of the term. “mental illness”. Mental illness is a term reserved for more serious mental disorders where the person has severe symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations. Decades of mental health research show that only a small proportion of people with mental illness commit violent acts, and together they represent only a fraction of violent crimes. Some mass shooters suffer from mental illness. Most don't. What they're saying here is that most of the people who cause gun violence have mental illnesses and the Sandy Hook shooter was one of them. There have been many court cases stating how we should treat people when it comes to gun violence, an example in the neighboring case v. UNITED STATES. This court case shook our justice system because it was very difficult to understand why he was accused. The reason is that even if it's an animal that's been shot, you're still going to get in trouble because it's an eagle that's been shot..