Oregon: Easier to Get an Assault Weapon Than a Doctor →

I pick up a Glock semiautomatic, the model used in the Virginia Tech massacre. I need to hold it, to feel it, to rub my finger across the trigger.

I don’t fear death. Raised in a morgue, I worked with my dad, the city medical examiner.

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America: 350,000,000 Guns & 47,000 Psychiatrists →

We have a constitutional right to bear arms.

We have no constitutional right to health care.

America is the most heavily armed nation in the world.

America also leads the world in mental illness.

Half of all Americans develop at least one mental illness.

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