Posted April 3, 2016 11:33 pm by Comments

By Gregory Smith

SellingTheSecondAmendment.com

Summit Daily has a story about Keith Carey, a gunsmith in Colorado with a suicide outreach program:

MONTROSE, Colo. — Keith Carey is a gunsmith in Montrose, a town with a frontier flavor set amid the mesas of western Colorado. He’s a staunch, though soft-spoken, defender of the right to bear arms.

Yet now he’s a willing recruit in a fledgling effort to see if the gun community itself — sellers and owners of firearms, operators of shooting ranges — can help Colorado and other Western states reduce their highest-in-the-nation suicide rates.

“Suicide is a tragedy no matter how it’s done,” he said, whose adult daughter killed herself with a mix of alcohol and antidepressants a few years ago on the East Coast. However, he sees the logic in trying gun-specific prevention strategies in towns like Montrose, where guns are an integral part of daily life.

Source: http://www.summitdaily.com/news/21409336-113/suicide-outreach-now-starting-at-gun-shops

If his daughter used alcohol and pills, then why isn’t he encouraging liquor stores and pharmacies to join the program? That makes no sense.

“It’s very expedient for people to commit suicide by a firearm, without too much forethought,” Carey said. “Unfortunately, it’s generally effective.”

At the urging of a local police commander, he agreed last year to participate …Read the Rest

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