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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5320342" data-attributes="member: 54375"><p>The link between gun deaths and gun ownership is much stronger than the link between violence and mental health issues. If it were possible to cure all schizophrenia, bipolar, and depressive disorders, violent crime in the US would <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/myth-vs-fact-violence-and-mental-health" target="_blank">fall by only 4 percent</a>, according to a <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=v4oSb2Na4nQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA101#v=onepage&q=swanson&friend=false" target="_blank">study</a> from Duke University professor Jeffrey Swanson, who examines policies to reduce gun violence.</p><p></p><p>There’s still a pervasive idea, pushed by gun manufacturers and gun rights organizations like the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/5/25/23140519/uvalde-school-shooting-nra-texas-good-guy-gun" target="_blank">National Rifle Association</a>, that further arming America is the answer to preventing gun violence — <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/5/25/23140519/uvalde-school-shooting-nra-texas-good-guy-gun" target="_blank">the “good guy with a gun” theory</a>. But a 2021 <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2776515" target="_blank">study</a> from Hamline University and Metropolitan State University found that the rate of deaths in 133 mass school shootings between 1980 and 2019 was 2.83 times greater in cases where there was an armed guard present.</p><p></p><p>“The idea that the solution to mass shootings is that we need more guns in the hands of more people in more places so that we’ll be able to protect ourselves — there’s no evidence that that’s true,” Swanson said.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 5320342, member: 54375"] The link between gun deaths and gun ownership is much stronger than the link between violence and mental health issues. If it were possible to cure all schizophrenia, bipolar, and depressive disorders, violent crime in the US would [URL='https://www.propublica.org/article/myth-vs-fact-violence-and-mental-health']fall by only 4 percent[/URL], according to a [URL='https://books.google.com/books?id=v4oSb2Na4nQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA101#v=onepage&q=swanson&friend=false']study[/URL] from Duke University professor Jeffrey Swanson, who examines policies to reduce gun violence. There’s still a pervasive idea, pushed by gun manufacturers and gun rights organizations like the [URL='https://www.vox.com/2022/5/25/23140519/uvalde-school-shooting-nra-texas-good-guy-gun']National Rifle Association[/URL], that further arming America is the answer to preventing gun violence — [URL='https://www.vox.com/2022/5/25/23140519/uvalde-school-shooting-nra-texas-good-guy-gun']the “good guy with a gun” theory[/URL]. But a 2021 [URL='https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2776515']study[/URL] from Hamline University and Metropolitan State University found that the rate of deaths in 133 mass school shootings between 1980 and 2019 was 2.83 times greater in cases where there was an armed guard present. “The idea that the solution to mass shootings is that we need more guns in the hands of more people in more places so that we’ll be able to protect ourselves — there’s no evidence that that’s true,” Swanson said. [/QUOTE]
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