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Data
The United States, home to 4 percent of the world’s population, accounted for more than a third of its gun suicides in 2016, according to a sweeping analysis of global firearm deaths published yesterday in The Journal of the…
America’s suicide rate is rising, surging by nearly a third since the turn of the millennium. Within that public health crisis is an underlying problem: a jump in the number of people taking their own lives with firearms.
Gun Policy
Legislation set to be introduced in Wisconsin would let residents ban themselves from purchasing new guns for up to two decades. The aim of the voluntary “no-buy list” would be to cut firearm suicides, which remain stubbornly high…
Suicide
A new report by leading researchers and medical professionals argues that more doctors need training in how to speak with their patients about firearms suicide. “Those who are engaged in curricula development for and training of healthcare providers have…
A Seattle Times op-ed urging readers to secure their firearms, ammunition, and prescription drugs to prevent suicide carries an interesting joint byline: It’s co-authored by Jennifer Stuber, a professor of social work at the University of Washington, and Alan…
A new study from the CDC offers a comprehensive analysis of the prevalence and patterns of firearm death and injury among children and teens.
What I learned about the risks of endless war, trauma, and guns while reporting on one general's headlong effort to save lives.
Longform
A commander with his own history of depression defied military norms to stop a rash of suicides on his base. It worked. So why did the Army abandon his approach?
The National Shooting Sports Foundation and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention used the 2017 SHOT Show to scale up their campaign to stop 10,000 deaths over the next decade.
A new paper argues that current policies can leave family members and friends unclear about how to legally remove a firearm from an individual in crisis.
People die from self-inflicted gunshot wounds more often than firearm ownership levels suggest they should.
In New Hampshire, twice as many people take their own lives than in Massachusetts.
Guns are the reason why.
Like most people who try to commit suicide, my attempt was impulsive. Because I used a gun, I should have died.
