top of page
Search

Jun 27, 2018
OPINION-ESSAY: Repeal the Dickey Amendment to Address Polarization Surrounding Firearms in the Unite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Forces against the funding blockade put in place by the Dickey Amendment in 1996 have grown more vocal...

Jun 26, 2018
ARTICLE: Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Jonathan M. Metzl MD, PhD, and Kenneth T. MacLeish PhD Four assumptions frequently arise in the...

May 25, 2018
ARTICLE: Stop Using Psychiatry to Sell Guns
It’s enough to make a psychiatrist cringe. Speaking just days after a 17-year-old student killed eight classmates and two teachers at...


Mar 13, 2018
PODCAST: The State of New York Gun Legislation | 112BK
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Jonathan Metzl, Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, talks with Ashley...


Feb 15, 2018
RADIO: Trump’s comments on Parkland, FL Shooting | KCBS San Francisco
Dr. Jonathan Metzl discusses President Trump’s comments after the Parkland, Florida school shooting with Rebecca Corral on KCBS radio,...


Dec 30, 2017
PODCAST: When the Shooter Is White: Race politics surrounding U.S. mass shootings | Brooklyn Live
On the show today: An expert on mental illness and gun violence to talk about mass shootings. Brooklyn Live – Podcast interview about...


Dec 30, 2017
RADIO: Public perception of mass violence and mental illness often misguided
In response to Sunday’s mass shooting at a Texas church, President Trump said the shooting was not “a guns situation,” but rather, a...


Dec 30, 2017
ARTICLE: I’m a Psychiatrist. Making Gun Violence About Mental Health Is a Crazy Idea | POLITICO
Before the initial shock wore off in the aftermath of yet another horrific American mass shooting—before we knew about the extent of the...


Dec 30, 2017
RADIO: How Mental Health Arguments Hinder Solutions To Gun Violence | KCUR’s Up To Date
Jonathan Metzl speaks to KCUR’s “Up To Date” about claims that gun violence in America is primarily a mental health issue, and not one...


Oct 14, 2017
RADIO: The Aftermath of the Las Vegas Shootings | Dr. Drew
There is never any easy answer in the aftermath of a shooting tragedy, whether politics, mental illness, personality characteristics, or...

Oct 7, 2017
OP-ED: When the Shooter is White | The Washington Post
In the hours and days following the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, politicians and many media outlets reflexively described...

Oct 7, 2017
QUOTED: What was Stephen Paddock’s motive? | BBC News
“Everyone has three lives,” Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez once posited. “A public life, a private life and a secret life.” It...

Oct 7, 2017
VIDEO: Profiling the Las Vegas shooter | Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Raidió Teilifís Éireann’s “Prime Time”: Profiling the Las Vegas shooter. The difficulty in profiling the Las Vegas shooter – Miriam...


Oct 7, 2017
VIDEO: Discussing gun laws and gun control in the U.S. | TRT World
Originally broadcast on TRT World. #firearms #guncontrol #law #TRTWorld


Feb 25, 2017
VIDEO: Will guns flood New York city under the Trump administration? | BK Live
#BKLive #firearms #law

Nov 30, 2016
VIDEO: Discussing the Possible Future of “Common Sense” Gun Laws | BK Live
#BKLive #firearms #law


Apr 24, 2013
OPINION-ESSAY: Let’s Talk About Guns, But Stop Stereotyping The Mentally Ill
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Restricting gun rights for people with mental illness is the one gun-control initiative that...
bottom of page