Every year, nearly 3000 children and teens die from gunfire, and nearly 14,000 are injured.

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Article: Gun Culture May Contribute to Suicide Rate in Rural America

From an article in The Atlantic:

Gun Culture May Contribute to Suicide Rate in Rural America


Excerpt from the article:

According to a recently published survey of Midwestern mental health clinicians, one of the challenges rural therapists face is telling parents of troubled youths to lock up their guns. The Midwestern counselors in the survey "agreed that nearly everyone owned and used guns," and said that in a lot of their clients' homes, guns were so commonplace that they became "part of the furniture." 
Parents in these areas often need to be reminded that guns are involved in half of all youth suicides, and that having them in the home makes it easier for young people to end their lives.

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