In a November 8, 2011 New York Times Editrial.
Andrew Rodenthal writes: ".. more American troops killed
themselves in 2010 than died in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nearly half of those suicides involved personally owned weapons.
So it makes sense for military counselors to
talk to at-risk active-duty soldiers about owning a gun. No,
that's against the law. A rule in last year's National Defense
Authorization Act - backed by the NRA of course - prohibits
such conversations." Read
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Gun ownership in the United States is decreasing. Although the
gun lobby would like us to believe that's not the case, the facts
are irrefutable. According to a new report by the Violence
Policy Center analyzing nearly four decades of survey data
from the independent General Social Survey (GSS) conducted by the
National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago,
household gun ownership peaked in 1977, when 54 percent of American
households had a gun. In 2010 only 32.3 percent of American households
had a gun--the lowest level ever recorded by the GSS. The reality
is that contrary to the marketing claims of the firearms industry
and gun lobby, household gun ownership continues to shrink while
an increasing majority of American households are gun-free.
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Firearm
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