Kaiser Health News (11/19, Waters) reports that in the aftermath of recent mass shootings across the US, “public health and mental health experts counter that blaming the violence on the mentally ill is unfair and inaccurate, pointing instead to lax gun laws.” Renée Binder, MD, “a professor of psychiatry at the University of California-San Francisco and a past president of the American Psychiatric Association,” said, “Most violence is not committed by people who are mentally ill.” Dr. Binder added, “Even if you took everyone who had any kind of mental illness and locked them up and gave them meds, it would hardly make a dent on the problem of violence.
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— “Gun Control Vs. Mental Health Care: Debate After Mass Shootings Obscures Murky Reality, “Rob Waters, Kaiser Health News, November 19, 2018.