America doesn't have a gun problem: it has a mental health problem, caused by the anti-psychiatry movement that started in the 1960s. Each of the recent high-profile active shooters could have been stopped were it not for legal strictures that have virtually eliminated involuntary commitment in the United States.<p>The anti-psychiatry movement has been so pervasive and effective that psychiatrists are effectively banned from speaking about these cases publicly. See this recent editorial by Dr. Paul Steinberg, published two days ago in the New York Times:<p>"I write this despite the so-called Goldwater Rule, an ethical standard the American Psychiatric Association adopted in the 1970s that directs psychiatrists not to comment on someone’s mental state if they have not examined him and gotten permission to discuss his case. It has had a chilling effect. After mass murders, our airwaves are filled with unfounded speculations about video games, our culture of hedonism and our loss of religious faith, while psychiatrists, the ones who know the most about severe mental illness, are largely marginalized."<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/opinion/our-failed-approach-to-schizophrenia.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/opinion/our-failed-approac...</a>