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Originally Posted by teg0
The real problem is mental health. If you take away a certain weapon, people will just find a new weapon. There is something about mental health in the USA that is a problem. Religion sure doesn't help.
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a new study from Duke University, John Hopkins University, and the University of Southern Florida shows that there is very little correlation between gun crime and mental illness. It goes to show that those pushing the blame onto the mentally ill are not only unfair, but often a tactic used to pigeonhole the multiple problems associated with gun violence into one faction.
?This is one of the hardest distinctions to make,? said Emma McGinty, a professor at John Hopkins and lead author of the study. ?There could be emotional regulation issues related to anger, for example, which are a separate phenomenon. There could be underlying substance use issues. There could be a whole host of other risk factors for violence going on.?
Although violent crime statistics were high among the mentally ill, The Washington Post noted that those with a diagnosis were actually less likely to carry a gun. Arrest records ranked those with illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or depression lower than those without, and those who had committed suicide were half as likely to use a gun.
Jeffrey Swanson, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences from Duke and one of the study?s researchers, noted that pushing the blame onto one group of individuals was dangerous and doesn?t solve the problem at hand.
Untangling Gun Violence from Mental Illness - The Atlantic
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