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SPECIAL ISSUE: What Guns Mean: The Symbolic Lives of Firearms
Civilian-owned firearms are particular material objects whose public health implications garner increasing academic and public attention. ...
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PODCAST: What Can Gun Violence Researchers Do?
If there are realistic goals that could slash gun violence in the US, what can be done by gun violence researchers and by gun owners to reduce the burden of deaths and disabilities caused by gun viole...
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OPINION-ESSAY: Repeal the Dickey Amendment to Address Polarization Surrounding Firearms in the United States
Forces against the funding blockade put in place by the Dickey Amendment in 1996 have grown more vocal over recent years....
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ARTICLE: Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms
Jonathan M. Metzl MD, PhD, and Kenneth T. MacLeish PhD: Four assumptions frequently arise in the aftermath of mass shootings in the United States...
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VIDEO: Scholar warns against linking mental health and gun violence | FOX NEWS
A perspective on the mental health debate as activists participate in March for Our Lives rallies across the country....
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VIDEO: The State of New York Gun Legislation | 112BK
Talking about New York gun legislation and the recent support the gun control movement has gained in the wake of the Parkland shooting....
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PODCAST: The State of New York Gun Legislation | 112BK
Talking with Ashley Ford at 112BK about New York gun legislation and the recent support the gun control movement has gained in the wake of the Parkland shooting....
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VIDEO: Vanderbilt University’s Dr. Jonathan Metzl discusses mental health and gun violence | CSPAN
Discussing mental health and gun violence with Steven L. Scully, host of C-SPAN's morning call-in show, Washington Journal. ...
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VIDEO: Florida high school shooting | France 24
On France 24, Dr, Metzl discusses the many other factors more important that mental illness....
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RADIO: A Look At The Narrow Point Of Intersection Between Mental Health And Gun Violence | NPR’s All Things Considered
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks about the narrow point of intersection between the worlds of mental illness and gun violence. ...
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VIDEO: Changing Gun Laws after the Florida Shooting | BRIC TV
Dr. Jonathan Metzl, author and Vanderbilt Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, joins......
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VIDEO: Florida shooting suspect suffered from more than mental health | MSNBC
Dr. Jonathan Metzl appears on MSNBC regarding the Florida shooter and predictive value of mental heath....
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RADIO: Parsing the Science on Mental Illness and Mass Shootings | The Takeaway, WNYC
Last week, President Donald Trump waded into the debate. In a......
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VIDEO: Trump Blames Mental Illness for Parkland Shooting, Ignores Easy Gun Access & Loose Background Checks | Democracy Now!
"I think, a very important question, which is: What would cause somebody to go over the edge, when there are so many responsible citizens, responsible gun owners in the world? And so, in that sense, I...
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RADIO: Trump’s comments on Parkland, FL Shooting | KCBS San Francisco
Dr. Jonathan Metzl discusses President Trump’s comments after the Parkland, Florida......
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PODCAST: When the Shooter Is White: Race politics surrounding U.S. mass shootings | Brooklyn Live
On the show today: An expert on mental illness and gun violence......
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RADIO: Public perception of mass violence and mental illness often misguided
Minnesota Public Radio's "News with Kerri Miller", In response to Sunday's mass shooting at a Texas church, President Trump said the shooting was not "a guns situation,"...
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ARTICLE: I’m a Psychiatrist. Making Gun Violence About Mental Health Is a Crazy Idea | POLITICO
Before the initial shock wore off in the aftermath of yet another horrific American mass shooting—before we knew about the extent of the injury and death, or the events that transpired......
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RADIO: How Mental Health Arguments Hinder Solutions To Gun Violence | KCUR’s Up To Date
Appearing on KCUR's "Up To Date" about claims that gun violence in America is primarily a mental health issue, and not one related to the easy availability of firearms....
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RADIO: The Aftermath of the Las Vegas Shootings | Dr. Drew
There is never any easy answer in the aftermath of a shooting......
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OP-ED: When the Shooter is White | The Washington Post
President Trump, who is quick to label other global acts of mass violence as “radical Islamic terrorism” well before investigations establish such intentions......
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RADIO: Confronting Modern Mass Shootings | NPR’s On Point
How should Americans understand and confront the now-drumbeat of mass killings in this country....
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QUOTED: What was Stephen Paddock’s motive? | BBC News
It remains unclear whether a secret life led Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old wealthy, retired accountant with a penchant for gambling, to open fire on a Las Vegas music festival crowd and kill 58 peopl...
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VIDEO: Profiling the Las Vegas shooter | Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Raidió Teilifís Éireann’s “Prime Time”: Profiling the Las Vegas shooter. The difficulty in profiling......
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VIDEO: Discussing gun laws and gun control in the U.S. | TRT World
At least 50 people killed and more than 400 wounded after a gunman identified as Stephen Paddock (64-year-old) opened fire at a country music festival in Las Vegas. Country music star Jason Aldean was...
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VIDEO: The Psychology of Hate Crimes | BK Live
Mental Health Professional Dr Metzl Talks Hate Crimes and Their Mental Implications.......
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VIDEO: Will guns flood New York city under the Trump administration? | BK Live
Will guns, gun violence flood New York city under the Trump administration?......
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VIDEO: Discussing the Possible Future of “Common Sense” Gun Laws | BK Live
In this segment of BK Live, Jonathan speaks on the complexity of understanding regulations on firearms in the U.S., and the implications of potential legislation under a Trump presidency. ...
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OP-ED: Guns in Donald Trump’s Chicago | The Conversation
The furor that ensued after the tweet raised an important question: How would Trump’s gun policies affect life for communities of color in cities like Chicago?...
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AUDIO: Is Gun Violence Contagious? | Sputnik News
Scientists have found that killing sprees and school shootings in the United States may inspire others to commit similar acts of violence for an average of 13 days after the initial tragedy. ...
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OP-ED: When a parking dispute is also a hate crime | MSNBC
They said it was a parking dispute, an everyday interaction between neighbors. That the exchange emerged from charged tensions of the banal. That the alleged assailant, Craig Stephen Hicks, belong...
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President Obama’s Executive Action on Guns
President Obama has taken important action toward stemming the tide of gun......
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VIDEO: Do school lockdowns add to the trauma of violence for students? | MSNBC
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VIDEO: Guns, Racism, and Mental Illness | MSNBC
Discussing guns racism and mental Illness on MSNBC's Mellisa Harris-Perry Show....
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VIDEO: Why do kids die in the United States and nothing is done about it? | CTV
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VIDEO: What are the effects of viewing mass shootings through the mental health lens? | Al Jazeera
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VIDEO: Why do we blame gun violence on mental illness and what about race? | Bric TV
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VIDEO: US schools are taking matters into their own hands to protect their students from shootings | ABC
Transcript LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Another school massacre last month in the United......
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RADIO: Gun Violence in America is the result of the policies we make | WBUR’s Here and Now
Officials are still looking for clues of a motive behind Tuesday's mass shooting that left at 14 people dead in San Bernardino, California. The suspected attackers were identified by police as Syed Ri...
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VIDEO: We are seeing mass death that’s unprecedented | KMBC News
ELI: THE PEOPLE WHO STUDY THIS KIND OF THING USE WORDS LIKE......
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ARTICLE: Are looser gun laws changing the social fabric of Missouri?
Missouri is poised to become the latest state to allow guns into......
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ESSAY: Sequester This! The Perils of Masculinity and the Truth About Sex | Public Books
A review of the tell-all exposé authored by Harvard urologist Abraham Morgentaler,......
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OP-ED: The New Science of Blaming Mothers | MSNBC
We’re back to blaming mothers in health research—or so it would seem.......
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ARTICLE: The NRA and Black People | The Grio
Last week the National Rifle Association opened a cynical new front in......
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CHAPTER: Living and Dying in Mental Health: Guns, Race, and the Politics of Schizophrenic Violence
This book comprises forty-four chapters by scholars whose ethnographic and historical work is conducted around the globe, including South Asia, East Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europ...
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OP-ED: When shootings happen, gender must be discussed | MSNBC
The male gender has all too frequently functioned as the white elephant in the room when it came to understanding mass shootings in the United States......
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Stop blaming the mentally ill for mass shootings.
The cities read like a list of battlefields: Aurora, Tucson, Charleston, Newtown, Orlando....
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OPINION-ESSAY: Let’s Talk About Guns, But Stop Stereotyping The Mentally Ill
Restricting gun rights for people with mental illness is the one gun-control initiative that Republicans feel free to support. In the aftermath of the epic failure of substantive gun-control legislati...
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