This longread highlights an element of the gun control debate that is often overlooked: that readily-accessible guns significantly increase the U.S. suicide rate. This conclusion is supported both by logic and by some extremely compelling statistics, and I hope it remains part of the ongoing conversations about guns and their impacts on society.
Thanks to Daniel Goldman, Ph.D., for forwarding this article to me.
"McCready's death highlights role of guns in suicide" by Liz Szabo
Published in USA Today, February 18, 2013
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2013/02/18/mccreadys-death-highlights-role-of-guns-in-suicide/1927815/
Eric
This seems like one of those sad articles that is pointing out something so obvious = having guns in the house amounts to family member's deaths in a much larger percentage than stopping intruders.
ReplyDeleteWhat I don't understand is why people still continue to want a gun in their house. I understand that people want to own guns for hunting and to make up for a small...but in the first case, why not regulate guns to be locked in a separate place like a gun locker at the local NRA meeting hall?
If you lock guns up in an NRA meeting hall, you might as well lock freedom away with them.
ReplyDeleteHaven't read the article yet but he goes by Dr. Daniel Goldman
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