Anti-Suicide Group Turns To Gun Dealers For Help

By Tom Knighton

Roughly two-thirds of all firearm-related fatalities are suicides. Meanwhile, three-thirds of all firearm-related fatalities are routinely used to justify new gun control laws.

Anti-gunners routinely lump suicides in with homicides to push their gun control agenda, nevermind that suicide is something someone does to themselves and, therefore, incredibly hard to prevent. Also, nevermind that even if you made all guns vanish, you’d still have suicides.

However, it’s probably a good idea for the firearm community to do what it can to combat suicide, even if for only the cynical reason for undermining our opponents’ talking points.

A group in Missouri is asking gun stores to help it fight those suicides.

Grassroots organizations are working across Missouri to persuade gun-related business owners to join efforts to limit access to guns or encourage safe storage for potentially suicidal customers.

One of the initiatives, Safer Homes Collaborative, sends part-time field coordinators to hundreds of gun shops, pawn shops and firearms training facilities across the state. The coordinators, who are gun owners themselves, ask the retailers to display educational materials and provide temporary storage of firearms. The retailers also are asked to complete a one-hour training to identify potentially suicidal customers and delay the sale of …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms