Defense Department to expand gun safety efforts in an attempt to reduce military suicides

[rebewranger]

Defense Department to expand gun safety efforts in an attempt to reduce military suicides
By Leo Shane III
 Mar 3, 09:00 AM

Veterans Affairs officials in recent months have increased messaging regarding safe storage of firearms as a means of reducing veteran suicides. (Department of Veterans Affairs)
Military leaders are planning to significantly expand their gun safety programs in an effort to stem suicides among service members, following the lead of other federal agencies and public health experts.

During congressional testimony on Wednesday, Karen Orvis, director of the Defense Department’s Suicide Prevention Office, said the work will begin this month, with messaging to troops regarding “the positive impact of safely storing firearms and medications” when they are facing mental health crises.

“Our data tells us that suicide is often a sudden and impulsive act and that adding time and distance between an individual’s suicide risk and a lethal means can be life saving,” she said.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/03/03/defense-department-to-expand-gun-safety-efforts-in-an-attempt-to-reduce-military-suicides/

[rebewranger]

All this "plan" does is teach someone who is, or may become, suicidal how to better kill themselves.  Again, in wokeness, the military uses tragedy to lobby against guns.  They let go of the truth that it is a psychological problem, not a material problem (guns).  It's like saying it is better to kill yourself with a smaller caliber bullet than a large caliber.

[rustynail]

If all fire arms were stored offsite we could save even more lives.

[EdinVA]

We now have 2 generations of weak willed people because we allow them to be offended by anything and everything, they cannot figure out which bathroom to use and are raised to believe that white is evil,  and this is the result.  We need to figure out better ways to emotionally profile people before we put them into high stress situations that they cannot handle.

[GtHawk]

Of course these idiots must realize that if someone wants to kill themselves they'll find a way. If not by gun then another means, what next rope safety? What about razor blades, drugs, cars, high places? maybe the best way would be not treating our service personnel like shit, or enemies of the state fearful that a fellow soldier will turn them in because they don't think right or used the wrong term for a mentally ills persons sexual identity.

[rebewranger]

  What about razor blades, drugs, cars, high places? 

This whole thing is about wokeness, not guns, so these don't matter - YET. 

[sneakypete]

If all fire arms were stored offsite we could save even more lives.

@rustynail


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