McGinty, Emma E., et al. “News Media Framing of Serious Mental Illness and Gun Violence in the United States, 1997-2012.” American Journal of Public Health, vol. 104, no. 3, Mar. 2014, pp. 406–413, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3953754/, https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2013.301557. Accessed 12 Jan. 2019.
This article illustrates these concepts because the main idea is about Gun Violence in the United States and how it is directly linked to mental illness. It illustrates the persecuted victim concept from Foolproof because it states that 65,000 victims are shot in criminal attacks each year. We see contradictory throughout the article because people assume that people with SMI (serious mental illness) are violent and often they aren't. Another concept is emotion, in any situation or conversation that has to do with gun violence you typically read statistics on how many deaths in a year, where the shootings take place, we see statistics in this article about the people with SMI being stigmatized as the problem. Something must be wrong because clearly statistics show that you can't only make media coverage and place "blame" on people who suffer with SMI on whether or not they are or aren't dangerous. Across a 16 year study 70% of media coverage about mass shooters are targeted at people with SMI which puts a negative message out there and heightens public attitudes and opinions on this topic.
