McGinty Emma E, Frattaroli Shannon, Appelbaum Paul S, Bonnie Richard J, Grilley Anna, Horwitz Joshua, Swanson Jeffrey W, Webster Daniel W
Emma E. McGinty, Shannon Frattaroli, and Daniel W. Webster are with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Center for Gun Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. Paul S. Appelbaum is with the Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY. Richard J. Bonnie is with the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville. Anna Grilley is with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Joshua Horwitz is with the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, Washington, DC. Jeffrey W. Swanson is with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC.
Am J Public Health. 2014 Nov;104(11):e22-6. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302171. Epub 2014 Sep 11.
Recent mass shootings have prompted a national dialogue around mental illness and gun policy. To advance an evidence-informed policy agenda on this controversial issue, we formed a consortium of national gun violence prevention and mental health experts. The consortium agreed on a guiding principle for future policy recommendations: restricting firearm access on the basis of certain dangerous behaviors is supported by the evidence; restricting access on the basis of mental illness diagnoses is not. We describe the group's process and recommendations.
近期发生的大规模枪击事件引发了一场关于精神疾病和枪支政策的全国性讨论。为了在这个有争议的问题上推进基于证据的政策议程，我们组建了一个由全国枪支暴力预防和心理健康专家组成的联盟。该联盟就未来政策建议的指导原则达成了一致：有证据支持基于某些危险行为限制枪支获取；而基于精神疾病诊断限制获取则没有证据支持。我们描述了该小组的过程和建议。
