Doctors Blast Trump's Mental Illness Focus to Fight Violence

Frustration is mounting in the medical community as the Trump administration again points to mental illness in response to yet another mass shooting. "The concept that mental illness is a precursor to violent behavior is nonsense," said Dr. Louis Kraus, forensic psychiatry chief at Chicago's Rush University Medical College. "The vast majority of gun violence is not attributable to mental illness." Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old charged with killing 17 people on...

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