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Is gun violence related to mental illness? No – and here’s the data

November 13, 2015
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Yahoo News, Nov. 11, 2015 In the month since the Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon — in which a 26-year-old man killed eight students and a professor — Congress has turned not to gun control, but mental health. Six days after the shooting, Rep. Martha McSally, R-Arizona, sponsored the Mental Health and Safe Communities […]

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Opinion: Stop blaming persons with mental illness for gun violence

November 13, 2015
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The author of this article, a high school sophomore, takes a bold stance on mass shootings: quit scapegoating people with mental illness and dodging the more important conversation. “So if there is no statistical proof that people with mental illnesses are more likely to be shooters, why do we blame them anyway? Because it is […]

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OPB poll shows most voters want mental health fix for mass shootings

October 24, 2015
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OPB News, Oct. 21, 2015 Most voters in Oregon and Washington think mass shootings – like the one earlier this month at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg – are the result of untreated mental health problems.  More than half of voters in the two states think mass shootings are avoidable. Those are among the findings of […]

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Bigotry has a field day as Trump opines on mental illness

October 4, 2015
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Time magazine, Oct. 3, 2015 Presidential candidate Donald Trump responded to President Obama’s renewed calls for gun control following the recent Oregon shooting in an interview with Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, saying people are always going “come through the cracks.” “I watched his statement, and I understand exactly what he’s saying,” says Trump. […]

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President Obama’s Eloquent Comments on Inaction after Reynolds High School Shooting

June 11, 2014
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Hat tip to Eli of the Portland Merc for this text. Yesterday a Reynolds High School student shot a teacher and killed another student, and then killed himself. No one knows why. The text below was transcribed by White House pool reporters. President Obama: “I have to say that people often ask me, you know, […]

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Oregon Sends Fewer Than 10 Mental Health Records to Database Used For Gun-Buyer Checks

November 16, 2011
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Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Tuesday, November 15, 2011 People with serious mental illnesses and drug abusers continue to be able to buy guns with ease because most U.S. states continue to ignore federal law by failing to forward mental health records to a national database that is used to run background checks for gun purchasers, […]

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