In a perspective piece in the Washington Post (3/1, Morris) “Health & Science” blog, Nathaniel Morris, MD, a resident physician in psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine, wrote that “evidence suggests that gun availability is a far better explanation for mass shootings than mental illness and that gun regulations targeted exclusively toward people with mental health issues will have minimal impact on the American epidemic of gun homicides.” Dr. Morris concluded that “when it comes to the link between guns and mental illness, gun-related suicides are an overlooked issue that takes more than 20,000 lives each year.”
Related Links:
— “We need to rethink mental health laws. But not because of mass shootings.,” Nathaniel Morris, Washington Post, March 2, 2018.