Challenging the political assumption that "Guns don't kill people, crazy people kill people!".

Challenging the political assumption that "Guns don't kill people, crazy people kill people!". Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2015 May;85(3):211-6 Authors: Hodges HJ, Scalora MJ Abstract Presumptions that mental illness is causally tied to firearm violence and that guns are too easily acquired by such persons have given rise to laws that categorically restrict people with mental health concerns from exercising a Constitutional right. Underlying these reforms appears to be a revised idiom, "Guns don't kill people-crazy people kill people." The purpose of this commentary is to address these assumptions and provide suggestions for managing this critical threat. (PsycINFO Database Record PMID: 25985106 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Am J Orthopsychiatry Source Type: research