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Guns, Not Mental Illness  - We seem to believe that violent behavior is directly connected to mental illness . When the behavior is sensational, as in mass shootings, clearly the ...

Anger Issues, Not Mental Illness , May Be More Apt Bar to Owning Guns  - As we try to balance constitutional rights and public safety regarding people with mental illness , the traditional legal approach has been to prohibit ...

Guns or mental illness not always the problem  - Holmes' defense in this week's death penalty trial says mental illness changed the once-promising neuroscience graduate student into a deranged ...

Mental illness and guns: It's impossible to legislate Here is a contrarian's perspective. Restricting gun sales to the mentally ill will lead to an increase in gun violence. My reasoning is based on several concerns. Defining mental illness itself is not totally objective. The American Psychological ...

East Helena man addresses role of mental illness in gun control debate Recent shootings across America have added fuel to the debate over gun control; Ryan Eisele of East Helena says he believes the problem is not only with guns, but with misunderstanding mental illness . At age 11, Eisele took a tragic fall in Yellowstone ...

My Turn: Should people with mental illnesses own guns?  - On the surface, it seems pretty obvious that people with mental illness should not ... of mental illness from Alzheimer's dementia and autism, to bipolar disorder,  ...