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Related: About this forumSuicide Prevention Director Partners With Gun Enthusiasts To Raise Awareness
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (CBS4) In the debate over guns heres what you dont often hear: its not homicides but suicides that are by far the leading cause of firearm deaths.
The need to find a way to blend suicide prevention and firearm safety together became really apparent, he told CBS4.
Hindman decided to engage some unusual allies: gun enthusiasts. He asked them to approach local gun stores with suicide prevention posters and brochures that carry a simple message:
If someone in your house is suicidal do everything in your power to ensure that they dont have access to your firearms while they are in crisis, he said.
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/10/21/states-suicide-prevention-director-partners-with-gun-enthusiasts-to-raise-awareness/
The need to find a way to blend suicide prevention and firearm safety together became really apparent, he told CBS4.
Hindman decided to engage some unusual allies: gun enthusiasts. He asked them to approach local gun stores with suicide prevention posters and brochures that carry a simple message:
If someone in your house is suicidal do everything in your power to ensure that they dont have access to your firearms while they are in crisis, he said.
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/10/21/states-suicide-prevention-director-partners-with-gun-enthusiasts-to-raise-awareness/
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Suicide Prevention Director Partners With Gun Enthusiasts To Raise Awareness (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Oct 2015
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Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)1. Excellent idea.
Having a regular customer suggest placing these brochures will be more likely to succeed than a stranger's request.
Decoy of Fenris
(1,954 posts)2. The first, and probably last, time I Rec one of Secmo's posts.
Good idea across the board here.
beardown
(363 posts)3. Excellent.
Don't wait for the govt and have them require a 1,000 page checklist that will confuse and diffuse the idea. After some time passes and what works and does not work can be reviewed against real life effects, then we can go to the govt to use it at a model. If repubs are still running congress we'll have a couple of more kill Obamacare and half social security payments attached, but we can deal with those when the time comes.