RT Journal
A1 Swanson J
T1 Mental illness and new gun law reforms: The promise and peril of crisis-driven policy
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2013
FD March 27
VO 309
IS 12
SP 1233
OP 1234
DO 10.1001/jama.2013.1113
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2013.1113
AB 
Some of the proposals deal with dangerous guns: Ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines. That now seems like a good idea to a majority of Americans across the political spectrum.1 But in a nation with a constitutionally protected right to possess a firearm and an estimated 310 million firearms already in private hands,2 the real action in gun control is “people control”: Prohibit dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun. It is through the lens of “people control” that mental illness comes into sharp focus, both as a presumed vector of gun violence and as a categorical prohibitor of gun access.