Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 01/08/2025 | 00:00:00
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Shane Tamura, 27, fired an M4 rifle in the building that houses the NFL headquarters. News reports said Tamura had a note that said he had CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is associated with head injury. New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on July 28 that police had heard about Tamura’s mental health history from Las Vegas officials. Nevada’s high-risk protection orders are part of a growing number of state laws that aim to prevent firearm injuries and deaths. The Nevada law has been little used since it took effect in 2020. Florida issued about 2,500 orders during the first 18 months after its 2018 law went into effect. Twenty-one states and Washington, DC, have passed red flag laws since 1999. The 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act provides funding for states to implement red flag laws. The National Alliance on Mental Illness said it is a harmful stereotype to link mental illness and violence. About 3 percent to 5 percent of violent acts are committed by people with serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression. In an August 2024 study, Columbia University Public Health researchers found that Florida’s red flag gun law, passed in response to the 2018 Parkland mass shooting, was associated with an 11 percent reduction in firearm homicide rates from 2019 to 2021. Extreme risk protection orders are one important law in a network of laws that work to prevent people who may harm themselves or others from accessing firearms.
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