Jonathan M. Metzl

Media Appearances

• The suspected Monterey Park attacker was 72. Here's why older shooters are rare

  "Men in a younger age range are more likely to get in fights, more likely to be impulsive ... they haven't had full brain development," said Jonathan Metzl, a professor of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University.

  January 24th, 2023

• What are the chances the parents of the Highland Park shooter will face prosecution?

  "If anything comes out of this, just based on the history of these kind of complaints, I would bet that it would be a civil case, not a criminal case," Jonathan Metzl, a professor of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University who studies gun violence, said of the likelihood of legal troubles for Bobby Crimo's parents.

  July 12th, 2022

• They survived the parade shooting. What do they tell their kids now?

  Dr. Jonathan Metzl, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of sociology and director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University, has been studying post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), mass shootings and gun violence in America for 20 years.

  July 7th, 2022

• Supreme Court strikes down NY State Concealed Gun law

  Jonathan Metzl and Rep. Ritchie Torres join MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart to discuss how the Supreme Court made it harder for states to regulate guns by overruling a century-old New York law that limited licenses to carry firearms.

  June 26th, 2022

• Young men, guns and the prefrontal cortex

  When Vanderbilt University psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl learned that the perpetrator of the Uvalde, Tex., school massacre was a young man barely out of adolescence, it was hard not to think about the peculiarities of the maturing male brain.

  June 3rd, 2022

• Activist Investing Has Come for Fossil Fuels. What About Guns?

  “It’s kind of a Hail Mary,” said Dr. Jonathan Metzl, the director of the Department of Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University, whose research focuses on guns in America. Shareholder resolutions are weak, Dr. Metzl said, because they can only influence one company at a time and, without broader, more coordinated pressure, individual gun makers have no incentive to act.

  May 28th, 2022

• As Texas school shooting confounds the world, CBS News looks at other countries' reactions to their own massacres

  "We've got a gun lobby, a corporate gun lobby that has its tentacles so deeply into our political process," said Dr. Jonathan Metzl, a sociologist who told CBS News he's witnessed the gun lobby pressure American politicians into withholding support for new laws by threatening to withdraw campaign finance.

  May 26th, 2022

• Activists focus on tip site in protesting Texas abortion law

  Dr. Jonathan Metzl, a professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, said that although the website seems “comically inept at this point,” it does “what the actual law on the books is asking people to do, which is to report on people.”

  September 7th, 2021

• Family said Colorado suspect had 'mental illness.' Experts say that's rarely the cause of mass shootings.

  "There's no psychotic illness whose symptom is shooting other people," said Dr. Jonathan Metzl, director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University.

  March 25th, 2021

• Dying of Whiteness

  Professor and author Jonathan Metzl joins Bill to discuss how the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland.

  May 17th, 2019