Running head: OUR LIVES MATTER
Caridad Pozo
May 27, 2018
Professor Emily Smith-Miles
Our Lives Matter Campaign
Gun Violence and Mental Illness
It is evident that there is a low connection between mental illness and gun control, and prevention measures should be put in place to reduce the increased mass shooting incidences. The efforts should work in conjunction with one another to provide a wide safety net. The third parties are the key individuals required to prevent mass shooting and they include family members. The third parties are important as they are likely to have knowledge of offenses likely to be committed (Rozel, & Mulvey, 2017). According to mental illness professional, most of the mass murderers are likely to leak information …show more content…
The same multidisciplinary teams should also be put in place in the United States especially in two of the greatest areas of concerns (educational places and workplaces). A Risk assessment should be mandated on individuals with great anger or high fantasies of violent revenge, as they are vulnerable to their ego.
Introduction an Framing the Issue
Gun control entails the set of regulations in the manufacture, usage, and possession of weapons by noncombatants (R, 2013). In this paper, we examine the campaign on gun control versus mental illness. To ensure the safety of individuals, the Government sets various measures to control the ownership and usage of the firearms; this has led to debates on gun possession by the mentally ill individuals.
Creating a Fact Sheet on the Issue
According to previous researchers, keeping a firearm at a household raises the risk suicide factor by 3 to 5. Eliot Rodger, a mentally ill person, shot and killed three people in Santa Barbara. Jared Loughner, also sick mentally murdered nine people in Tucson, Arizona. Seung-Hui killed 32 people at Virginia, in 2007. However, epidemiological research shows that gun handling by the mentally ill leads to more suicide cases and less of interpersonal violence-related deaths (Andres, A. R. …show more content…
The two conflicting sides are gun control or mental health sensitization. There are prolonged disagreements in the Senate even after a single shooter killed 58 people and injured more than eight hundred others in a single occurrence (Spitzer, 2015). A month after, a mentally unstable youth aged 19 years was accused of killing 17 people. Such acts bring doubts on the effectiveness of lawmakers who ought to pass legislation to protect the citizens. Among them is the Democratic Senator Mark Warner who portrayed uncertainty on the best option to take.
Del Marcia of D-Newport News put across that blaming mental illness on mass shootings is too ‘shortsighted’ and simplistic. She advocated for further scrutiny of the issue before opting for a solution. Van Cleave, the president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League at the time reflected that in the 1960s people including the mentally ill walked with guns and there were no reported cases of mass killings. He, therefore, advocated for an investigation on what changed between the
Caridad Pozo
May 27, 2018
Professor Emily Smith-Miles
Our Lives Matter Campaign
Gun Violence and Mental Illness
It is evident that there is a low connection between mental illness and gun control, and prevention measures should be put in place to reduce the increased mass shooting incidences. The efforts should work in conjunction with one another to provide a wide safety net. The third parties are the key individuals required to prevent mass shooting and they include family members. The third parties are important as they are likely to have knowledge of offenses likely to be committed (Rozel, & Mulvey, 2017). According to mental illness professional, most of the mass murderers are likely to leak information …show more content…
The same multidisciplinary teams should also be put in place in the United States especially in two of the greatest areas of concerns (educational places and workplaces). A Risk assessment should be mandated on individuals with great anger or high fantasies of violent revenge, as they are vulnerable to their ego.
Introduction an Framing the Issue
Gun control entails the set of regulations in the manufacture, usage, and possession of weapons by noncombatants (R, 2013). In this paper, we examine the campaign on gun control versus mental illness. To ensure the safety of individuals, the Government sets various measures to control the ownership and usage of the firearms; this has led to debates on gun possession by the mentally ill individuals.
Creating a Fact Sheet on the Issue
According to previous researchers, keeping a firearm at a household raises the risk suicide factor by 3 to 5. Eliot Rodger, a mentally ill person, shot and killed three people in Santa Barbara. Jared Loughner, also sick mentally murdered nine people in Tucson, Arizona. Seung-Hui killed 32 people at Virginia, in 2007. However, epidemiological research shows that gun handling by the mentally ill leads to more suicide cases and less of interpersonal violence-related deaths (Andres, A. R. …show more content…
The two conflicting sides are gun control or mental health sensitization. There are prolonged disagreements in the Senate even after a single shooter killed 58 people and injured more than eight hundred others in a single occurrence (Spitzer, 2015). A month after, a mentally unstable youth aged 19 years was accused of killing 17 people. Such acts bring doubts on the effectiveness of lawmakers who ought to pass legislation to protect the citizens. Among them is the Democratic Senator Mark Warner who portrayed uncertainty on the best option to take.
Del Marcia of D-Newport News put across that blaming mental illness on mass shootings is too ‘shortsighted’ and simplistic. She advocated for further scrutiny of the issue before opting for a solution. Van Cleave, the president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League at the time reflected that in the 1960s people including the mentally ill walked with guns and there were no reported cases of mass killings. He, therefore, advocated for an investigation on what changed between the