In the Gun Debate, Mental Illness Doesn't Predict Dangerousness
Category: POLITICS
We should be asking: Is the person is a danger to him or herself or to others if he or she had a gun? That is the question. The notion that we can use mental illness as a way to determine that someone is somehow more dangerous is just ill-informed.
By Paul Heroux, ContributorState Representative, Massachusetts, 2014-07-21