Mental Health & Gun Violence: What Do We Know

By Gary Marbut

Opinion

Montana – -(Ammoland.com)- Too many talking heads are frothing over the Florida school shooting. All this rabid attention surely inspires copycat repeats. Of course school shootings and mass murder are terrible. But, let’s ask some intelligent questions about what’s going on.

Many commentators bring up various suggestions about mental health, from more taxpayer funding, to wider screening, to better record keeping and sharing, to using mental health evaluations to strip people of their civil rights. So, what’s the deal with mental health and “gun violence”?

(I put “gun violence” in quotes because the issue is really about violence against people, by any method. One of the largest mass murders in U.S. history was done in a New York City nightclub with a quart of gasoline; another used fertilizer.)

I have explored the intersection of mental health and gun violence. I have written about that intersection and posted that online. Please review my study at: www.progunleaders.com/MentalHealth.

There are important points in this analysis you need to be able to understand and express to friends, elected officials and in letters to the editor.

Especially relevant is that people with mental health challenges are …Read the Rest

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