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" After the tragic shooting at Oregon&amp;#039;s Umpqua Community College, John Oliver and the Last Week Tonight staff only had a matter of days to respond to the devastating events. While news programs debated gun control and mental health (as they&amp;#039;ve done for 44 other\u00A0shootings at schools this year), Oliver&amp;#039;s team used the days before taping its Sunday show\u00A0to take a different angle. The easy choice would have been to discuss gun control on the show, but Oliver\u00A0used his main segment to deflate the stigma surrounding\u00A0mental illness, and how talking about it in the context of a mass shooting &amp;quot;is deeply misleading.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The aftermath of a mass shooting might actually be the worst time to talk about mental health,&amp;quot; Oliver said. &amp;quot;Because, for the record, the vast majority of mentally ill people are non-violent. And the vast majority of gun violence is committed by non-mentally ill people. In fact, mentally ill people are far likelier to be the victim of violence rather than the perpetrators.&amp;quot; But since it&amp;#039;s in the news right now, Oliver chose to use the moment to appropriately discuss mental health, and specifically how the country attempts to treat the mentally ill. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a clusterfuck,&amp;quot; Oliver said, &amp;quot;except that&amp;#039;s an insult to clusterfucks.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Finding out jails are our largest provider of mental health treatment is like finding out Li&amp;#039;l Wayne lyrics are our greatest source of sexual education,&amp;quot; Oliver said. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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