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flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 01:21 PM Apr 2015

Anger management issues and gun ownership.

Gun Control Laws Should Target The 28.7 Million Violent Gun Owners

http://www.vocativ.com/culture/health-culture/mental-illness-gun-control/

In this study, researchers analyzed transcripts from the National Comorbidity Study Replication—a series of in-person interviews, conducted between 2001 and 2003, with 5,000 adults—where participants answered questions about gun ownership, and whether they agreed with statements like, “I lose my temper and get into physical fights.” The results: about 10 percent of Americans have a history of impulsive, angry behavior and at least one gun at home, while nearly 1.5 percent of the population (4.8 million people) have anger issues and carry guns outside their homes.

The authors have urged policymakers to revise current restrictions to target people with violent misdemeanors and histories of substance abuse. “The criteria that we have now are too broad and too narrow at the same time,” says Duke psychiatry professor Jeffrey Swanson, a lead author on the study. “We identify people with remote histories of involuntary commitment, while impulsive, angry people—the kind of people who smash and break things and get into physical fights—they can buy guns.”


3.7% of people who own one gun have a history of physical violence. When gun ownership goes to 11 or more the number rises to 9.1%. Would you like to live next to one of these people?

1.5% of concealed carry licensees (4.8 million people) have anger management issues. These are the people who are too scared to leave home without a gun, the ones who shop at the same stores you do and who are in traffic next to you.

This is the reason "may issue", where the local law enforcement that may know the applicant's temperament, should be involved in issuing concealed carry permits. Over the last 50 years the NRA/ILA has worked to make "shall issue" (sounds better than give 'em the damn gun) the law, taking local law enforcement out of the process.

When are we going to learn?
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Anger management issues and gun ownership. (Original Post) flamin lib Apr 2015 OP
Kind of ironic that this would show up today. As I watched the video of the cop shooting the man jwirr Apr 2015 #1
This study has legs. It's getting picked up a lot by mainstream media already. CBS, WaPo, UPI, etc Electric Monk Apr 2015 #2
K&R..... daleanime Apr 2015 #3

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
1. Kind of ironic that this would show up today. As I watched the video of the cop shooting the man
Wed Apr 8, 2015, 01:27 PM
Apr 2015

in the back the first thing that came to mind was that he was throwing a temper tantrum. Eight shoots in the back because he was running away?

I have several people in my family who have anger management problems - they act before they think. Doing that with a gun would certainly be a disaster.

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