People suffering from severe depression should be banned from purchasing/carrying guns

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104. 2 things

1) Currently fear of prejudice is as important than access to mental health services. There is no reason to believe entrepreneurs would not add services if there was money to pay for them. Money is tremendously important. Current responses of Colorado to the Aurora shooting are frozen, because entrepreneurs who want the money are fighting over it.

2) The handful of studies in the past 25 years on violence in the mentally ill have all made the same point. The difference in violence between the mentally ill and the general population is almost neglible. Multipliers of violence among the mentally ill include drug abuse and incarceration. Generally speaking about 5 percent of people in society are violent each year. Violence among the mentally ill is about 7% and the observed increase is likely to mostly be due to increased reporting of violent acts by persons in institutions because of high surveillance and required reportage.