ongoing compilation of worthwhile information/discussions in the wake of the assassination/murders in Arizona.
MENTAL HEALTH
- The State of Mental Healthcare
- Half of AZ mental health patients kicked off last year
- Six facts about guns, violence, and gun control (after Colorado "batman" shooting) Ezra Klein (july 2012) http://goo.gl/XyuFS
- America is an unusually violent country. But we’re not as violent as we used to be.
- The South is the most violent region in the United States.
- Gun ownership in the United States is declining overall.
- More guns tend to mean more homicide.
- States with stricter gun control laws have fewer deaths from gun-related violence.
- Gun control is not politically popular.
- Poll: AZ favors more gun control (2/2011)
- Poll: "Majority of Americans, incl'g Gun Owners, Support Tougher Restrictions" (HuffPo reports on poll, 1/18/11)
- Hero in Tucson shooting--who carried concealed weapon--almost shot the wrong guy (Jan 11 2011)
- Glock sales go thru roof in week after shooting
- States with most gun violence: voted McCain, high poverty (Jan. 2011) (map)
- Further (v. interesting) analysis of the data (Atlantic)
- GOP Lawmaker thinks MORE guns in Tucson woulda prevented the shooting (Jan 2011)
- Thank God for MA sanity on gun laws ("Bay State Sanity, BoGlo, Brian McGrory, Jan 2011)
- Tucson Tea Party leader: it's Giffords's fault for not packing heat (Jan 2011)
- Palin to speak at huge NV gun rally (Jan 14 2011)
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