美國的殺人犯,也愛說自己有精神病……
A familiar pattern plays out after every mass shooting in the US.
每次美國的大規模槍擊案發生後，就會出現一種熟悉的模式。
First, advocates of gun control point out, accurately, that taking guns off the streets and limiting who can buy them will save lives. Then opponents of gun control argue that there are no regulations that can stop a determined shooter and that what we really need is to address mental health.
首先，管控槍支的倡議者精確指出，從街上把槍拿走並限制槍支的購買者能夠拯救生命。然後管控槍支的反對者爭論，沒有什麼法規可以阻止堅定的槍手，我們真正需要的是解決精神健康問題。
"This is also a mental illness problem," President Trump said, following the script, after shootings in Dayton and El Paso. "These are people that are very, very seriously mentally ill." "Mental health is a large contributor to any type of violence or shooting violence," Texas Gov. Greg Abbott agreed.
這也是精神疾病的問題。”在代頓和埃爾帕索槍擊事件之後，美國總統特朗普按照劇本說道。“那些人的精神病非常非常嚴重。”“精神健康是任何種類的暴力和槍襲的重要因素。”德州州長格雷格·阿博特同意特朗普的觀點。
Then liberal gun control advocates insist they too want better mental health care and that Republican gun control opponents are hypocrites because they oppose expanding access to health insurance that would help people get it.
然後自由黨的槍支管控提倡者堅稱，他們也希望能有更好的精神醫療保健，共和黨的槍支管控反對者都是僞善者，因爲他們反對擴大健康保險的覆蓋範圍，這本可以幫助人們得到醫療保健的。
But the convenient cries of "mental health" after mass shootings are worse than hypocritical. They're factually wrong and stigmatizing to millions of completely nonviolent Americans living with severe mental illness.
但是在大規模槍襲後，這種不費事的“精神健康”口號比僞善更加可怕。它們與事實不符，對數百萬患有嚴重精神疾病的非暴力美國人來說是侮辱性的。
Abbott is wrong: the share of America's violence problem (excluding suicide) that is explainable by diseases like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder is tiny.
阿博特錯了：可以用精神分裂症和躁鬱症解釋的美國暴力問題（包括自殺）的份額很小。
If you were to suddenly cure schizophrenia, bipolar, and depression overnight, violent crime in the US would fall by only 4 percent, according to an estimate from Duke University professor Jeffrey Swanson, a sociologist and psychiatric epidemiologist who studies the relationship between violence and mental illness.
根據杜克大學教授傑弗瑞·司萬森的估計，如果能一夜之間突然治癒精神分裂症、躁鬱症、抑鬱症，那麼美國的暴力的犯罪事件會下降4個百分點。傑弗瑞·司萬森是一位社會學家和精神流行病學家，研究暴力和精神疾病之間的關係。
"People with mental illness are people, and the vast majority aren't any more of a risk than anyone else," Swanson says.
“患精神疾病的人也是人，大部分人遭受的風險不比其他任何人少。”司萬森說。
That doesn't mean, he says, that we can't do more to identify people at risk of committing gun violence and prevent them from getting guns — particularly if they are a danger to themselves or others.
他說，這不意味着我們不能做出更多努力，鑑別可能進行槍支暴力的人並阻止他們得到槍支，特別是如果他們對自己和他人都是個危險的時候。
But portraying mass shootings as a mental health problem misrepresents the evidence.
但是把大規模槍襲說成精神問題歪曲了證據。
