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SecularMotion

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Wed Jun 8, 2016, 06:32 AM Jun 2016

Study Probes Access to Guns And Risks For Those With Mental Illness [View all]

New research examines if federal gun regulations pertaining to mental illness influence the use of guns for violence and suicidality.

Researchers at Duke University studied records of 81,701 adults in Florida’s Miami-Dade and Pinellas counties for more than 10 years starting in 2002. Individuals had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression.

Over that time, 254 study subjects committed suicide — nearly four times the average suicide rate of the general adult population in Florida during the same period.

Researchers discovered people with serious mental illnesses who use guns to commit suicide are often legally eligible to purchase guns. They are allowed to buy the guns despite having a past record of an involuntary mental health examination and brief hospitalization.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2016/06/07/study-probes-access-to-guns-and-risks-for-those-with-mental-illness/104394.html
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