{"id":5435,"date":"2011-10-27T20:39:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T01:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2011-10-27T20:39:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T01:39:34","slug":"gun-control-keeps-suicides-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/27\/gun-control-keeps-suicides-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun control keeps suicides down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bryant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/editorialopinion\/article\/1077286--gun-control-keeps-suicides-down\">says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most firearm deaths in Canada are suicides (over 75 per cent). Only 24 per cent are homicides. Suicides in Canada will go up if the Prime Minister isn\u2019t careful about what he repeals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Suicides dropped dramatically in Canada thanks to the federal gun registry. Not only do statistics prove as much, it stands to reason that with improved gun safety comes decreased gun fatalities; with fewer tools-of-choice for suicides available, fewer suicides occur. It just makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; A home where there are firearms is five times more likely to be the scene of a suicide than a home without a gun: Canada Safety Council. The Institut national de sante publique du Qu\u00e9bec has assessed that the coming into force of the Firearms Act is associated, on average, with a reduction of 250 suicides (and 50 homicides) each year in Canada. That\u2019s nearly one life saved per day. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bryant says: Most firearm deaths in Canada are suicides (over 75 per cent). Only 24 per cent are homicides. Suicides in Canada will go up if the Prime Minister isn\u2019t careful about what he repeals. &#8230; Suicides dropped dramatically in Canada thanks to the federal gun registry. Not only do statistics prove as much, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/27\/gun-control-keeps-suicides-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gun control keeps suicides down<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[421,449,290,574],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1pF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}