{"id":62465,"date":"2015-10-26T10:23:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T14:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62465"},"modified":"2015-10-26T10:23:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T14:23:39","slug":"abcwp-poll-gun-violence-is-mental-health-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62465","title":{"rendered":"ABC\/WP poll; gun violence is mental health issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mass-shootings-mental-health-issue-poll\/story?id=34686199\">ABC News<\/a> releases their poll in conjuction with the Washignton Post which reveals that 63% of Americans see the issue of gun violence as a mental health issue rather than a gun control legislation issue.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One reason is that 63 percent see mass shootings as more a reflection of problems in identifying and treating people with mental health problems than as the outcome of inadequate gun control -\u2013 a view expressed by many gun rights advocates. <\/p>\n<p>These attitudes relate closely to priorities. Among people who see mass shootings as a mental health issue, just 30 percent prioritize enacting new anti-gun violence laws, while 62 percent prefer protecting gun rights&#8230;Views on gun control are highly politicized. Seven in 10 Democrats prefer enacting new gun laws while the same share of Republicans prioritize protecting gun rights. Independents divide more narrowly, 50-43 percent for gun rights vs. gun laws. <\/p>\n<p>Eighty-two percent of Republicans, moreover, blame mass shootings on mental health care failures rather than inadequate gun control; it\u2019s 65 percent among independents and much lower among Democrats, 46 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most of the shooters in the media&#8217;s most publicized mass killings were committed by people who had mental health issues which should have flagged their purchase of those guns, there were also a few that should have been flagged because of their criminal records. The fellow in Charleston South Carolina, for example. The whole background check debate revolves around a  National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, that isn&#8217;t working the way it&#8217;s supposed to work. <\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/about-us\/cjis\/nics\/nics\">FBI<\/a> &#8220;The National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, is all about saving lives and protecting people from harm\u2014by not letting guns and explosives fall into the wrong hands. It also ensures the timely transfer of firearms to eligible gun buyers.&#8221; Well, it&#8217;s not doing that, and loading the system down with even more background checks, like those transfers between friends and family, isn&#8217;t going to make the system more reliable and it&#8217;s not going to protect society until the bugs get ironed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News releases their poll in conjuction with the Washignton Post which reveals that 63% of &hellip; <a title=\"ABC\/WP poll; gun violence is mental health issue\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62465\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ABC\/WP poll; gun violence is mental health issue<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}