Some of the tens of thousands of suicide deaths in the U.S. each year would not have happened if people in the community had been schooled to provide advice about gun safety
Historically, suicide prevention has focused on the mental health risk factors that might lead an individual to want to die. But while such an approach is intuitively appealing, it isn’t working. That is the opinion of Michael Anestis, executive director of the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center. In 2022 the gun suicide rate in the U.S. reached an all-time high: it increased by 1.6 percent from a year earlier and resulted in 26,993 deaths.
People who own firearms don’t want to accidentally get hurt or hurt others, he says, but they view the risk that firearms pose to their owners as one worth taking. Still, Anestis contends that common ground for widespread secure storage measures is possible. Research that Anestis published in the February 2021 edition of the American Journal of Public Health showed that “lethal means counseling” for gun owners resulted in a wider adoption of safe storage methods.
It’s called Project Safe Guard, and it’s about training not only clinicians but also community members to talk with firearm owners about the ways that they can store their firearms securely and the circumstances in which they should consider doing so. The idea behind it is to make the environment safer so that when someone is in a difficult place, they’re less likely to have click-and-ready access to their firearms.
What are some of the techniques that can be used to connect with gun owners and open their eyes to the importance of safe storage?
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