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TN: Guns and suicide go tragically hand in hand
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The problem of gun suicides isn't improving, either. CDC statistics show that the rate of suicide-by-firearm climbed more than 14 percent from 2006 to 2014, while the rate of gun homicides declined.
Second Amendment advocates may take this column as a call for more gun control. That is not the intent.
This is, instead, a call for greater awareness of the connection between guns and suicide, and for forthright public discussion of the issue.
Suicide is by far the greatest public health problem involving firearms, and one of the major health issues of the United States. |
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jac
(5/6/2017)
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One only has to look at Japan to see that you don't need a gun to commit suicide.
There is no evidence to show that eliminating guns from any society will result in a decrease in suicides. |
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PHORTO
(5/6/2017)
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jac - And even if there was, it makes no difference.
Fundamental rights are not subject to any "interest balancing" approach (D.C. v. Heller, 2008). |
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