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10 Essential Facts About Guns and Suicide [View all]
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/09/10-facts-guns-suicide-prevention-month/The decision to end one’s own life is often an impulse. When firearms are involved, that impulse is almost always fatal.
Guns are not the most common means of suicide attempt, but they result in more deaths than every other method combined.
This is a very good read.
There are those who will say, "Hey, they'll just use something else." That's patently and provably wrong. Only one in ten failed suicides goes on to actually consummate the act. In nine cases out of ten suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. The number of veterans committing suicide is skyrocketing and most using guns. Yea! Support the troops! Get yerself a yella ribbon!
States with more guns have more suicides. Period, end of discussion.
There are those who say that suicide shouldn't be considered gun violence. Okay, do a google image search on suicide + gun and consider that most suicides are found by loved ones and then tell me that's not an act of violence.
30,000 deaths and 100,000 injuries at the cost of $260 Billion a year.
It's time.
It's past time.
We have a platform and we have a discussion at the highest levels of government. We have a movement to counter the power of the NRA and gun lobby.
Go. Vote. Be a single issue voter if only for a few election cycles.
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