Tag: gun violence

An Urban-Rural Divide Over Gun Suicide

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From The Bend Bulletin: "A recent review of studies on firearm ownership and suicide found that a gun owner had a 300 percent higher...

No Guns in Schools

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The Society for Humanistic Psychology has released a statement by psychology faculty and students from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in opposition to the notion...

Blaming Mental Health Won’t Solve Gun Violence, Says APsaA

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According to a new statement released by the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), the causes of firearm violence are complex and multifactorial, and gun violence...

No, It’s Not Because He Was ā€˜Mentally Ill’: Why Tragedy Struck...

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49 people died in a club in Orlando, Florida at the hands of a man who is now dead, too. In only a few hours time, he destined himself to be forever made infamous as one of an increasingly long line of 'shooters' that have sent our nation on a desperate search for who or what to blame. I never met this particular 'shooter,' but in my teens I did meet one. Here's how that went.

ā€œMental Illness and Gun Violence: Stigmatizing People Isn’t the Answer”

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In an opinion piece for care2, Katie Medlock discusses how ā€œmental illnessā€ awareness campaigns have shifted, dangerously, ā€œand ended up insinuating that people with mental illness could turn on ā€˜us’ at any time and should be feared.ā€