Weill Cornell Medical College
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and frequent contributor to the New York Times Science section and Sunday Review, where he writes on behavioral science
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Richard Friedman
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FROM Richard Friedman
To the Point
The Tragic Mathematics of Gun Violence Another lone gunman grabbed headlines last week in California, but so-called mass shootings rarely kill more than a dozen people. That's all too many, but it's a fraction of the 20 to 30 deaths every day from firearms -- 32,000 every year: the daily gun violence that does not receive saturation news coverage. Each rampage focuses attention on killers with mental illness. But most of the mentally ill are not violent, and most violent people are not mentally ill. Is there some way to reduce the carnage without violating the gun rights now recognized by the US Supreme Court?
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