Over 1,000 active duty US Army soldiers have died by suicide since 2015, and a new study suggests that reducing those deaths may require limiting access to one of a soldier's most familiar tools: the gun.
The research, published Friday in the medical journal JAMA Network Open, found that soldiers who died by suicide were more likely than their peers to own personal firearms. Storing a loaded gun at home or carrying one in public, the study found, was"associated with a 4-fold increase in the odds of suicide death" among soldiers.To get helpCall the National suicide prevention hotline at 1-800-273-TALK .
"If we don't have ready access to a firearm," Winslow said,"we stop, we might pick up the phone or walk down the hall, talk to a buddy, or go out to a bar and have some drinks, and the thought passes, and you start coming out of it."But when people have a loaded weapon nearby -- as soldiers often do -- that passing thought can quickly become a reality. And while the study was conducted in the military, Winslow says the findings can apply to the civilian population.
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