More than 20,000 Americans a year kill themselves with a gun. Alarmed gun sellers are joining the suicide prevention fight.
America's rising suicide rate is bringing together two longtime adversaries: the medical community, which typically sees guns as a public health threat, and the firearms industry, which distrusts most efforts to restrict access to guns. In 2016, the U.S. saw nearly 23,000 gun suicides, far outnumbering gun homicides. Hundreds of gun sellers and range owners around the country now share suicide-prevention literature, teach workers to recognize distress among customers and welcome prevention advocates to firearm trade shows.
“If we are going to be selling these things, then we should also offer people help if they have any problems,” said Rowdy Reeve, a Utah gun range owner who arranged suicide prevention training for his staff after a customer killed himself at his range.
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