To repeat the ambiguous assertions made at the end of blogpost 1, it would seem at once highly likely that the industrial and economic might of the United States will always be sufficient to maintain the American way of life, … Continue reading →

As of this writing, February, 2016, the national debt of the United States is $18,994,034,667,585.44 and increasing an average of a staggering $2.38 billion a day since September 40, 2012. The estimated population of the United States as of the … Continue reading →

6.    It is incumbent on a combination of sincere students of the problem to determine what the factors leading to violence are and to determine ongoing strategies to combat those factors. That process will take decades, but it must begin … Continue reading →

Conclusions: 1.    Connections between mental illness and gun violence are complicated, and not as directly causal as the NRA, other gun advocates, or the anti-gun lobby would have the public believe. It is not as simple as “guns don’t kill … Continue reading →

The latest iteration of the “madman” killer is the entrance onto the media stage is the dangerous loner. These killers are the “unstable, angry White men who should never have had access to firearms.” Metzl and MacLeish, op cit in … Continue reading →

As if the complexities and vagueness described in the previous six blogposts on Mental Health and Gun Control were not sufficient to muddy the waters of understanding about mental illness and violence almost to make it impossible to come up … Continue reading →

There is one more myth that is widely held in the general U.S. public—that of the unpredictable and suddenly violent lone gunman. Most serious research shows that “social relationships also predict gun violence. Regression analyses by Papachristos et al. demonstrate … Continue reading →

I repeat my intention in this series of blogposts to limit discussion as much as possible to the issues of mental illness and its relationship to gun violence. The previous blogpost ended with an assertion that mental health specialists might … Continue reading →

Two articles underscore the confusion—some say the schizophrenic attitudes—surrounding gun control targeting the mentally ill: Steven Rosenfeld, The NRA once supported gun control, Salon, Alternet, Monday, Jan 14, 2013 and Lexington, Why the NRA keeps talking about mental illness, rather … Continue reading →

Continuing make use of the information found in Pacific Standard Magazine, Nov/Dec, 2015: Among the states, while mental health data has remained sparse overall, some states have made it easier for the mentally ill to restore their gun rights than … Continue reading →