Stig Östlund

torsdag, november 16, 2017

The Quiet Room — NEJM

"--- In the month since the mass shooting in Las Vegas, over 1300 more Americans have been killed, and more than twice that number have been injured, by firearm violence. Every day, 46 children and teenagers are shot and 7 of them die. The overwhelming majority of those shootings and deaths are the result of interpersonal violence, though some are from an accidental discharge of an unsecured firearm and some are suicides and are attributed to underlying mental illness. Sometimes the shooting is described in a bylined article in the local newspaper, but most of the time it is not reported at all. What does get reported skews toward senseless acts of terror, with the blame placed squarely on the shoulders of a mentally ill monster. But gun violence in the United States is not primarily a mental health problem.---"


"---President Donald Trump has said that gun violence in America is a mental health problem, but the issue is far more complicated---"




--> The Quiet Room — NEJM: Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — The Quiet Room

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