Abstract

Neither of these requirements has ever been demonstrated to be true, therefore there are no legitimate grounds for restricting the civil rights of the mentally ill concerning guns. The existing evidence [1-3] indicates that: gun violence is at most only slightly increased in the seriously mentally ill; most, if not all, of this increase is due to comorbid substance abuse, not psychosis; and the percentage of total violent crime committed by the severely mentally ill is very small.

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