Mass Violence in America: Causes, Impacts and Solutions

Copyright

2019

Published By

National Council for Mental Wellbeing

This report points out that, while there is a modest link between mental illness and violence, there is no basis for the public’s generalized fear of people with mental illness. Having a psychiatric diagnosis is neither necessary nor sufficient as a risk factor for committing an act of mass violence. For that reason this report has a broader range of considerations and recommendations beyond the subset of all mass violence with a link to mental illness.