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Gun control and mental health WASHINGTON, March 28, 2013 - Expecting a carjacker, rapist or a drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a handgun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care his car bomb is taking up two spaces.”-Joseph T. Chew. Recent efforts to ...

Mental Health America Urges Immediate Screening for Most Common Mental ... Mental health screening can save lives, says Mental Health America. Mental health has consequences beyond those we've been hearing about in recent media reports on shootings, gun control, military suicides and other public issues. Undiagnosed mental ...

Erasing a stigma: It's time for more effective mental health care The president placed the National Conference on Mental Health in this larger context, so that mental health does not become a distraction from the gun-control issue -- and so that the campaign will not further stigmatize people with mental - health ...

Viewpoints: Shooters have mental health issues that need 'first aid' Mass murder should not become the new political discourse for endless partisan debate but recognized as a confluence of public health issues: gun control, mental illness and needed resources. Gun control is simply one facet of the problem. One facet of ...

SC and Myrtle Beach area mental health systems persevere through stigma ... MYRTLE BEACH -- The recent school shooting in Newtown, Conn., as with similar tragedies, has spurred conversations on gun control, school safety and mental illness . And while it has not been confirmed that the shooter, who took his own life, had been ...

Mental Health Center Proclaims That Mental Illness Does Not Equate to Violence With the gun control debate heating up in the wake of mass-shootings across the country, the Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center takes a stand against the stigma of mental illness and violence. “In the wake of such tragedies we often try to make sense ...

Mental illness and gun control  - Even though the statistics may be somewhat biased because mental health issues are likely reported more frequently in the United States than ...