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The Hidden Gun Epidemic: Suicides
Ralph Demicco, a gun shop owner in Hooksett, N.H., was shocked in 2009 when three of his customers bought handguns and committed suicide over five days in separate shootings. He encountered firsthand the stark, barely noticed fact that more than 60 percent of the nations 30,000-plus gun deaths each year are acts of suicide, not accidents or homicidal attacks. In New Hampshire, where the suicide rate is 31 percent higher than the national average, over 85 percent of firearm deaths are suicides.
The dealer reviewed the shops surveillance tapes. There were no giveaway signs of the troubles driving these customers to shoot themselves. Its just an ugly, ugly thing, Mr. Demicco later told researchers for Harvard Universitys School of Public Health. I decided I must become involved.
And he did, joining a pioneering effort that avoided the typical gun-control debate between two entrenched factions. Instead, he focused strictly on the suicide problem in collaboration with public health and mental health professionals, other firearm dealers and gun rights advocates. They worked on a program to educate gun owners about research that shows they face a higher risk of suicide than other people not because they are more suicidally inclined, but because guns are so lethally efficient when used, and are often too easily at hand.
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/opinion/the-hidden-gun-epidemic-suicides.html
The dealer reviewed the shops surveillance tapes. There were no giveaway signs of the troubles driving these customers to shoot themselves. Its just an ugly, ugly thing, Mr. Demicco later told researchers for Harvard Universitys School of Public Health. I decided I must become involved.
And he did, joining a pioneering effort that avoided the typical gun-control debate between two entrenched factions. Instead, he focused strictly on the suicide problem in collaboration with public health and mental health professionals, other firearm dealers and gun rights advocates. They worked on a program to educate gun owners about research that shows they face a higher risk of suicide than other people not because they are more suicidally inclined, but because guns are so lethally efficient when used, and are often too easily at hand.
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/opinion/the-hidden-gun-epidemic-suicides.html
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The Hidden Gun Epidemic: Suicides (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Jan 2017
OP
At least he is trying to educate people about how guns increase your risk of suicide.
SunSeeker
Jan 2017
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CrispyQ
(36,470 posts)1. Kick.
Wow, three in five days.
The dealer reviewed the shops surveillance tapes. There were no giveaway signs of the troubles driving these customers to shoot themselves.
Igel
(35,317 posts)2. Plasma, the Hidden State of Matter: The Sun n/t
SunSeeker
(51,564 posts)3. At least he is trying to educate people about how guns increase your risk of suicide.