Opponents of an assault weapons ban also call for strengthening of voluntary civilcommitmentlaws and more robust treatment and therapies for the mentally ill.
"We need to look at the full range of mental health issues, from early detection and treatment, to civilcommitmentlaws, to privacy laws that needlessly prevent mental health records from being included in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, " LaPierre said in the statement.
Segal at the University of California, Berkeley, "Civil Commitment Law, Mental Health Services, and U.S. Homicide Rates, " found that a third of the state-to-state variation in homicide rates was attributable to the strength or weakness of involuntary civil-commitment laws.