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A thread on how gun owners can prevent suicide in their communities:
A thread on how gun owners can prevent suicide in their communities:
Hi, gun owners! Especially gun owners who feel like guns are being scapegoated for our nation& #39;s mental health crisis!
Most gun deaths in the US are suicides. Do you and your gun owning circles talk openly about mental health? Do you have a plan for who would hold onto your guns for you if you, or someone in your family, became a suicide risk?
I& #39;m not asking this in an accusatory way. This is your place to shine, gun people. You (hopefully) have permits and storage and knowhow that I, an unarmed hippie, do not. I probably would be a bad pick to hold onto a suicidal person& #39;s guns for them. You would be a good pick.
Have you let your friends know that you can store their guns for a while if they don& #39;t feel safe having them in the house? And that you won& #39;t pry into their business about it? Have a safety buddy. Make a deal.
A gun in the home hugely increases the chance that a person who attempts suicide will die. Some people will go out and get a gun for this purpose, but many others will live or die based on whether they have a lethal weapon within reach at the moment that they fall into crisis.
The firearms community could do incredible prevention work if they made this a big priority. 90% of the time we -- on the left at least -- talk about gun death in terms of a menace posed by gun owners to the rest of us. But it& #39;s mostly gun owners who die from guns.
