Doctors Say Mental Health Is Not to Blame for Mass Shootings

Don't Blame Mental Illness for Mass Shootings

After the El Paso Walmart killings, President Trump referred to mass shooters as “mentally ill monsters.” While this ploy may help bring needed ...

Don't Blame Mental Illness for Gun Violence - The New York Times

But mass shootings represent a small percentage of all gun violence, and mental illness is not a factor in most violent acts. According to one ...

Mental illness and reduction of gun violence and suicide

A research study subsequently compared the numbers of mass killings before and after the gun control legislation was introduced: no shooting massacres occurred ...

Are mass shootings a 'mental illness problem'? Experts say the link ...

Following mass shootings, President Trump blamed "mentally ill monsters." Experts dispute that, and fear some proposed solutions will ...

Blaming mass shootings on mental health is oversimplifying a ...

After the murders in Allen, Gov. Greg Abbott stuck to the same message he's repeated after every mass shooting during his leadership. “People ...

Vanderbilt expert: Mental illness is often not to blame in mass ...

When a mass shooting occurs there are often two camps of thought: those who feel the country needs stronger gun laws and those who blame the ...

Why it's wrong to blame mass killings on mental illness

Why it's wrong to blame mass killings on mental illness. August ... mass shooting epidemic on them, they are not just engaging in bigotry.

Are video games or mental illness causing America's mass ...

Are video games or mental illness causing America's mass shootings? No, research shows. ... Every time a mass shooting occurs, the country talks ...

Mental illness and gun violence in the US: What the research says

After the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, experts are stressing that most gun violence is not committed by mentally ill people.

What Are the Real Warning Signs of a Mass Shooting?

What Are the Real Warning Signs of a Mass Shooting? ... While some mass shootings are committed by people with diagnosed mental illnesses, a life ...

US: 'Most mass shootings not committed by mentally ill' - Al Jazeera

Health experts warn that research does not back up the argument that mass shootings are a 'mental health problem'.

President Trump Blames Mental Illness For Mass Shooting, Not Guns

President Trump says the Texas shooting shows that mental health is a "problem of the highest order." This comes amid a debate about mental ...

Why Better Mental-Health Care Won't Stop Mass Shootings

While improving access to mental-health care might help lots of suffering Americans, researchers who study mass shootings doubt it would do much to curb ...

Mass shootings and mental illness in America. Inside the debate

“The most obvious solution to stopping mass shootings is to prevent access to assault weapons. Full stop,” noted Florida-based medical doctor ...

You Are Wrong, Mental Illness Is Not to Blame for Gun ... - YouTube

Numerous other political figures have pointed to mental illness as a contributing factor in mass shootings. From Montreal, we speak with Dr.

After Georgia school shooting, mental health will be blamed

Republicans conveniently scapegoating the mentally ill for America's school shootings and mass shootings is reprehensible.

Stress of mass shootings causing cascade of collective traumas

The regularity of mass shootings is razing Americans' mental health ... shooting (Garfin, D. R., et al., Psychological Science, Vol. 26, No ...

Most mass shooters aren't mentally ill. So why push better treatment ...

And most Americans agree, with 63 percent blaming mass shootings on the failures of the mental-health system to identify sick people before they ...

Gun Control Vs. Mental Health Care: Debate After Mass Shootings ...

After the recent mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif., in which 11 people were killed at a country music bar, President Donald Trump ...

Is there a link between mass shootings and mental illness? - BBC

A 2004 analysis of more than 60 mass murders in North America, for example, found that just 6% were psychotic at the time of the killings.