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Originally Posted by bicycletricycle
Ya, I know, it is a bad idea.
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Just to follow up on this part of the thread:
Mental illness by itself is not a predictor of firearm violence towards others.
Persons with mental illness account for a very small portion of gun violence (Steadman, Monahan, Pinals, Vesselinov, & Robbins, 2015) (Baumann & Teasdale, 2018).
Where there is gun violence, persons with serious mental illness are
significantly more likely to be the victims of violence than to perpetrate it (Insel, 2011) (Baumann & Teasdale, 2018).
Individuals who have a serious mental illness and who do go on to commit gun violence typically often do so at the time of their first episode of psychosis—before they are likely to encounter a mental health professional or have a preexisting record of mental health concerns (Swanson, 2012).