Potential Gun Reforms: Stricter Background Checks and Greater Access to Mental Health Records
Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek: “The severely mentally ill should never have access to guns. We have an epidemic of untreated mental illness in the U.S. and right here in Minnesota.”
The following was released by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office: Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek, the Minnesota Sheriffs’ Association, Hennepin County Judge Jay Quam and a coalition of community partners that included advocates for the mentally ill and state lawmakers gathered in St. Paul Wednesday to discuss potential reforms to address concerns about the role of mental illness and extreme gun violence. Among the proposed reforms: strengthen existing gun background check laws, provide greater access to mental health records for law enforcement and address gaps in providing services and resources to Minnesotans who live with untreated mental illness. “We have an access problem,” said Sheriff Stanek, “The severely mentally ill …
JoJo
3:38 pm on Sunday, January 27, 2013
To dovetail on what Rick is saying... Not JUST that the shooters were mentally ill. The larger similarity of the shooters, the similarity that allows us to put the Columbine shooters and others in the same group as these obviously mentally ill men, is that they were all on multiple phychotropic drugs. Dr Karen Effrem, several years ago, collected and studied the evidence on violent crowd/school … more ›