6/11/2023 0 Comments Suicide stock photo gun“If you make it hard for them to reach for a gun, not only have you given them a much better chance at surviving that attempt-but we also know that more than 90% of the people who survive a suicide attempt don’t go on to die by suicide thereafter. “Many suicidal crises are fleeting and impulsive, and the method that people use depends largely on what they can reach for in that vulnerable moment of crisis,” Miller adds. “If you reach for pills in that moment of vulnerability, you’re so much more likely to have a second chance at life than if you reached for a gun. “Nine out of 10 people who attempt to kill themselves with a gun end up dying in that attempt: That’s 50 times higher than the likelihood of death by other commonly used methods, such as pills and cutting,” Miller says. Miller says access to guns in the home results in suicides that might otherwise have been avoided. Suicide ranks among the 10 leading causes of death in the U.S., notes Miller: It is the top cause of firearm death for both women and men. “But we know that instead of actually protecting these people, buying the gun is imperiling them.” “The great majority of people who buy guns do so to protect themselves and the people they live with, along with their property,” Miller says. Here’s why guns increase the risk of suicide–especially in stressful times But he says far fewer people are aware of the excess suicide risk that results from having a gun brought into the home. Miller notes that people are aware of the dangers of second-hand smoke-the health risks that accompany sharing a household with a smoker. None of the 330,000 women owned guns themselves. It found that from 2004 through 2016, more than 330,000 women in California had been living in a gun-free home with another adult before at least one handgun was brought into the home by an adult co-habitant-including a spouse, partner, or roommate. The study of 9.5 million adult women is among the largest to explore the risk of keeping a gun at home. “Our study quantifies for the first time how much that woman’s risk of suicide will go up because someone she’s living with decided to get a handgun.” “There are millions of women living with other adults, some of whom are thinking about bringing guns into their home,” Miller says. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Moultrie is in Colquitt County about 200 miles south of Atlanta in southwest Georgia.Matt Miller, professor of health sciences and epidemiology at Northeastern. The GBI confirmed the other two women were related to White, but did not identify them.Īccording to WALB, the two women were White’s mother and grandmother. He’s then seen walking into the restaurant and taking his own life via a self-inflicted gunshot. Investigators say surveillance footage showed White arrive at the McDonald’s, get his manager, Amia Smith, to come to the door and shoot her. Olympic sprinters Tori Bowie, 32, Calvin Davis, 51, have died Surveillance video shows midtown shooter running in street moments after shooting.ATLANTA ACTIVE SHOOTER: Suspected gunman arrested after killing 1, injuring 4 others in Midtown.She later died from her injuries.Īnother woman was later found shot to death at the home next door. Police requested the GBI’s assistance after finding a man and woman dead at the McDonald’s.Īs agents were heading to the scene, Moultrie Police Chief Sean Ladson called and said they had found a woman shot at a home, but she was still alive.
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