
06-01-2019, 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by anothersteve
"Mass shootings represent national awakenings and moments when seeming political or social adversaries might come together to find common ground, whether guns are allowed, regulated, or banned. Doing so, however, means recognizing that gun crimes, mental illnesses, social networks, and gun access issues are complexly interrelated, and not reducible to simple cause and effect. Ultimately, the ways our society frames these connections reveal as much about our particular cultural politics, biases, and blind spots as it does about the acts of lone, and obviously troubled, individuals."
American Journal on Public Health
There are plenty of arguments here, but surely no discussion.
Steve
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It is required by TOTV to supply a link when you copy and paste. Your paste is from a 40 page thesis, and this is the link in case folks want context and bibliography. It matters.
Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms
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