This is what Lavern Spicer, a Republican Congressional candidate from Florida wrote in a tweet that went viral the day after last Sunday's deadly shooting at a mall in Copenhagen.
She was one of several US politicians who seized on the incident to argue that stricter gun laws do not prevent mass shootings. The argument is one that gun rights advocates repeat after almost every mass shooting: Mental disorders are to blame for violence, not weapons.
The media tends to promote this oversimplified narrative, according to multiple studies, even though it does not treat all perpetrators equally: Muslim mass shooters are often perceived as less mentally ill and more motivated by religion, a 2018 study found, while Black men and Latinos are cast as violently inclined, as opposed to white men, who are characterized as victims of their mental health conditions, another piece of research shows.