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The New York Times fact checks politicians' rhetoric about mass shootings and mental health. And advocates are voicing frustrations over the misconception that the two are always connected. "The vast majority of gun violence is not attributable to mental illness," said Dr. Louis Kraus, forensic psychiatry chief at Chicago's Rush University Medical College.