Reuters (8/8, Crist) reports, “About 61 percent of firearm owners in the US have received formal training in handling their guns, but only one in seven say it included prevention of suicide,” which is the primary cause of deaths from guns, researchers found after analyzing nearly 4,000 responses from a “web-based survey that included questions about firearm ownership, storage, training and use.” The findings were published online July 11 in the journal Injury Prevention.
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— “Few U.S. gun owners get training that includes suicide prevention,” Carolyn Crist, Reuters, August 8, 2017.