Citation

Hodges HJ, Scalora MJ. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 2015; 85(3): 211-216.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

10.1037/ort0000069

PMID

25985106

Abstract

Presumptions that mental illness is causally tied to firearm violence and that guns are too easily acquired by such persons have given rise to laws that categorically restrict people with mental health concerns from exercising a Constitutional right. Underlying these reforms appears to be a revised idiom, "Guns don't kill people-crazy people kill people." The purpose of this commentary is to address these assumptions and provide suggestions for managing this critical threat. (PsycINFO Database Record

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