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Some With Histories of Mental Illness Petition to Get Their Gun Rights Back

Date: July 2, 2011

Author: Michael Luo

QUOTE: law passed by Congress after the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech that was actually meant to make it harder for people with mental illness to get guns. As a condition of its support for the measure, the National Rifle Association extracted a concession: the inclusion of a mechanism for restoring firearms rights to those who lost them for mental health reasons.

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Key People:

• Rep. John D. Dingell
• Rep. Raúl R. Labrador Esq.
• Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
• Rep. Carolyn McCarthy
• Paul Helmke
• Prof. Randy Otto Ph.D.

Key Organizations:

• American Board of Forensic Psychology (ABFP)
• Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
• Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
• National Rifle Association, The (NRA)
• New York Times Company
• Violence Policy Center (VPC)

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Abstract Principles
  • Information
    • Measurement
      • Standards
  • Responsibility
    • Credentials / Experts / Background
  • Timing / Delay / Procrastination

• Health & Medicine
  • Mental Health / Mental Illness / Therapy
    • Mental Disabilities
  • Suicide

• Law & Justice
  • Civil Rights / Equal Protection
    • Fair Trials
      • Evidence / Search & Seizures
    • Gun Control/2nd Amendment
  • Criminal Law
    • Homicide/Murder

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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