Source: Campus Safety Magazine [follow link for complete article]
With Concealed Carry Laws, Operational Uncertainties Confuse School Administrators
By Brian Armes · December 29, 2014
This former principal describes the questions and concerns he and other K-12 officials would have should a person who is not in law enforcement legally bring a gun onto school property.
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Sunday, December 28, 2014
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms
Source: American Journal of Public Health
Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms
Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD, and Kenneth T. MacLeish, PhD
Jonathan M. Metzl is with the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society and the Departments of Sociology and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. Kenneth T. MacLeish is with the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society and the Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University.
Contributors
Both authors conceptualized and designed the analysis and wrote and edited the article.
ABSTRACT
Four assumptions frequently arise in the aftermath of mass shootings in the United States: (1) that mental illness causes gun violence, (2) that psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun crime, (3) that shootings represent the deranged acts of mentally ill loners, and (4) that gun control “won’t prevent” another Newtown (Connecticut school mass shooting). Each of these statements is certainly true in particular instances. Yet, as we show, notions of mental illness that emerge in relation to mass shootings frequently reflect larger cultural stereotypes and anxieties about matters such as race/ethnicity, social class, and politics. These issues become obscured when mass shootings come to stand in for all gun crime, and when “mentally ill” ceases to be a medical designation and becomes a sign of violent threat.
A .pdf format of the article is available here.
Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms
Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD, and Kenneth T. MacLeish, PhD
Jonathan M. Metzl is with the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society and the Departments of Sociology and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. Kenneth T. MacLeish is with the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society and the Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University.
Contributors
Both authors conceptualized and designed the analysis and wrote and edited the article.
ABSTRACT
Four assumptions frequently arise in the aftermath of mass shootings in the United States: (1) that mental illness causes gun violence, (2) that psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun crime, (3) that shootings represent the deranged acts of mentally ill loners, and (4) that gun control “won’t prevent” another Newtown (Connecticut school mass shooting). Each of these statements is certainly true in particular instances. Yet, as we show, notions of mental illness that emerge in relation to mass shootings frequently reflect larger cultural stereotypes and anxieties about matters such as race/ethnicity, social class, and politics. These issues become obscured when mass shootings come to stand in for all gun crime, and when “mentally ill” ceases to be a medical designation and becomes a sign of violent threat.
A .pdf format of the article is available here.
Saturday, December 27, 2014
PBS - PLEASE WATCH "Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA" on Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Source: PBS
FRONTLINE investigates the politics and power of the NRA.
In Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA, FRONTLINE goes inside the politics of America's gun debate. Veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk investigates the NRA, its political evolution and influence, and how it has consistently succeeded in defeating new gun control legislation.
Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA
How the NRA became a powerful lobbying force. Included: remarks from individuals on both sides of the gun-control debate, including former NRA spokesman John Aquilino; Vice President Joe Biden; and former NRA executive vice president Warren Cassidy.
In the Sacramento, CA area, this program airs on KVIE at 9pm.
Source: PBS
FRONTLINE investigates the politics and power of the NRA.
In Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA, FRONTLINE goes inside the politics of America's gun debate. Veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk investigates the NRA, its political evolution and influence, and how it has consistently succeeded in defeating new gun control legislation.
Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA
How the NRA became a powerful lobbying force. Included: remarks from individuals on both sides of the gun-control debate, including former NRA spokesman John Aquilino; Vice President Joe Biden; and former NRA executive vice president Warren Cassidy.
In the Sacramento, CA area, this program airs on KVIE at 9pm.
Source: PBS
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