Citation

Barry CL, McGinty EE, Vernick JS, Webster DW. New Engl. J. Med. 2013; 368(12): 1077-1081.

Affiliation

Department of Health Policy and Management (C.L.B., E.E.M., J.S.V., D.W.W.) and the Center for Gun Policy and Research (E.E.M., J.S.V., D.W.W.), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Massachusetts Medical Society)

DOI

10.1056/NEJMp1300512

PMID

23356490

Abstract

The horrific loss of life at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012 has prompted a national conversation about guns and mental illness in the United States.This tragedy occurred less than 6 months after 70 people were shot in a movie theater in Colorado and after highly publicized mass shootings in Arizona and at Virginia Tech. These four events share two common characteristics: all four shooters were apparently mentally ill, and all four used guns with large-capacity magazines, allowing them to fire multiple rounds of ammunition without reloading. As policymakers consider options to reduce gun violence, they . . .

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