Gun shops take suicide prevention into their own hands!

[flamin lib]

Last edited Thu May 14, 2015, 10:28 AM - Edit history (1)

I have often said that the most qualified people to prevent gun violence and to design legislation to prevent gun violence are gun owners if they only would. Here's an example of someone who did exactly that.

After a New Hampshire gun shop owner found out that in just one week three customers who bought firearms from his store committed suicide shortly after the purchase he took matters into his own hands.

Working with other shop owners and mental health professionals he launched the New Hampshire Gun Shop Project. It has been adopted by 48% of NH gun stores!

The project uses printed materials, posters and sales training to identify and council potential suicide victims before selling a firearm to them. It works. In one case, after denying a sale the shop owner received a letter from the man's lawyer thanking him for preventing his client's suicide and in another a sales person actually took a woman to counseling.

Now THIS is violence prevention done by those who have expertise in guns and gun safety!

Follow the link below to read about the program and view it's posters and printable materials.

http://www.theconnectprogram.org/firearms-safety-coalitions-role-nh-suicide-prevention

How do we go about expanding this project into other states? Where do we start?

[daleanime]

1. Nice!

[shenmue]

2. Sounds like a good move

[Human101948]

3. NRA will fight it as an infringement of the Second Amendment...

The right to keep arms and blow your head off.

[sunnystarr]

4. Great post! Link not working tho. (nt)

[flamin lib]

5. Works for me. Don't know what's up. nt

[BrotherIvan]

6. I applaud this move

And if more "responsible" gun owners would be, well, responsible, for the great power they carry when they buy a deadly weapon, a lot more people would agree that our current laws are working. I applaud these people for having a conscience.

[mwrguy]

7. A fig leaf for death merchants

"Sure I sell killing machines, bu I have a flier up in the shop telling people not to kill themselves!"

[-none]

8. That should be a clue for people on the nature of guns.

Like the mandated safety notice for air bags in cars.
I knew the mother of a woman that was killed by the air bag, when she was T-boned on the passenger side of the car she was driving. The seat belt held her in place as the driver side air bag deployed, and hit her on the left shoulder and the the side of her head, breaking her neck.