TY  - JOUR
T1  - Mental illness and new gun law reforms: The promise and peril of crisis-driven policy
AU  - Swanson J
Y1  - 2013/03/27
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2013.1113
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1233
EP  - 1234
VL  - 309
IS  - 12
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2013.1113
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2013.1113
ER  -