The most common means of suicide for men, and the means for many women who killed themselves, was by a firearm. This was true both in 1999 and 2014. Please see Betsy McKay, “Suicides Climb After Years of Decline,” The Wall Street Journal (April 22, 2016), p. A3, citing data from the National Center for Health Statistics, U S Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The best thing you can do as a person with firearms at home,
and with mental health symptoms, is to rid yourself of the firearms and
ammunition. Turn them in to a police department, sell them to get some extra
cash, or give them to a relative who is healthy. The firearms are simply too
potent a risk to you.
You may be worried that you won’t be able to protect
yourself from intruders without firearms. Here’s how:
- · Get and train a watch dog
- · Have a police whistle in your pocket and another by your bed
- · Put tactical flashlights that have a strobe function accessible everywhere in your home. An example is the compact J5 V-1 Pro Flashlight. It sells on Amazon for just $11.95..
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