Gun Policy News
Access the Problem, Not Illness, Say Experts
3 September 1991
Sydney Morning Herald
Psychiatrists have dismissed as "absurd" a suggestion by gun lobbyists that psychotic people or people with psychological problems should be listed on a register which would prohibit them from owning guns.
Dr William Andrews, chairman of the NSW Branch of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP), said the idea was based on a myth, perpetuated by popular fiction and films, that all mentally ill people were dangerous.
"In reality, the vast... (GunPolicy.org)