Gun control may potentially remove one tool from the hands of potential perpetrators, but mass homicides occur in every part of the globeScotland, Norway, Germany, China. So while it may indeed be the right time to talk about gun control, as many are saying, it is also the right time to talk about mental health care in our country. Our countrys funding for mental health services has only gotten worse since the 2008 recession. As the National Alliance on Mental Illness has been warning for some time, the existing level of funding is inadequate, so our nations ability to identify and care for the severely mentally ill has been hamstrung.
In my own clinical work, Ive seen individuals Ive identified as being potentially at risk for future criminal behavior due to their mental illness. Very often, there are simply few to no resources for them until they come to the attention of the criminal justice system. Obviously, the vast majority of the chronically mentally ill wont commit crimes, certainly not of the severity of the Sandy Hook shooting. But by leaving the mentally ill adrift to fend for themselves, we miss the opportunity to identify and treat some of these at-risk individuals before they escalate. Granted, neither gun control nor a well-funded mental health system will prevent every mass homicide. But we leave ourselvesand more innocent childrenvulnerable until we address both of those issues.
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