{"id":3782,"date":"2016-08-02T08:47:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T12:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2016-08-02T08:47:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T12:47:30","slug":"gun-violence-and-mental-health-laws-50-years-after-texas-tower-sniper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3782","title":{"rendered":"Gun Violence And Mental Health Laws, 50 Years After Texas Tower Sniper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Lauren Silverman, KERA, for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>For some people, the attack on police officers by a gunman in Dallas this summer brought to mind another attack by a sniper in Austin 50 years ago \u2014 on Aug. 1, 1966. That\u2019s when student Charles Whitman stuck his rifle over the edge of the clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin and started shooting. Ultimately, he killed 16 people \u2014 and wounded more than 30 others. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/gun-violence-and-mental-health-laws-50-years-after-texas-tower-sniper\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=32363027&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8vSIz3w_qsKXCRb1Ak5UIzwbWlzYk_Lyzg0n4loL9KXMFpllaArMPrDEm27EgjCBzqGPqd8kjyZN9lzXLln9DKFCXVug&amp;_hsmi=32363027\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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