Posts Tagged ‘guns’

April 4, 2014

The Military and Mental Health

The tragic shootings at Fort Hood put the media spotlight, once again, on mental health issues. The shooter may not have left sufficient clues around to his mental state but clearly this was a very disturbed person who took the lives of three others as well as himself and injured many more. There have been […]

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January 18, 2013

Guns and Mental Health

There are, on average, 30,000 firearm related deaths in the United States every year. Of those, about two thirds  were suicide and roughly one third are homicides. Obviously a very significant majority of gun deaths are suicide.Mental illness and/or substance abuse is present in a large percentage of those cases.  Since many people who commit […]

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