"Let's not allow mental illness to be further stigmatized by events like the Newtown tragedy, nor to distract us from the solutions that are closer at hand. It's a lot faster, easier, and cheaper to reduce the number of assault weapons in circulation than it is to identify, treat and contain the very small subgroup of people with mental illness who present a homicide risk. We need to do both, of course, but gun safety will make the difference sooner."
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T. Berry Brazelton
Thomas Berry Brazelton (May 10, 1919 - March 13, 2018) was a noted pediatrician and author in the United States. Major hospitals throughout the world use the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS). Many parents knew him as the host of a cable television program What Every Baby Knows, and as author of a syndicated newspaper column. Brazelton wrote more than two hundred scholarly papers and twenty four books. His Columbia Alumni Profile describes him as "America's most celebrated an
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