The Newtown massacre has policymakers contemplating anew how people with mental health conditions are kept from harming themselves and others. Specific proposals have prompted much concern. “I knew what was coming when I heard about the tragedy: the assumption of a connection between the shootings and mental health,” said Mark Salzer, chair of rehabilitation sciences and director of the Collaborative on Community Inclusion of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities at Temple. “I knew the demoralization and the guilt by association” that people would experience.