usmarine0352_2005
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This is how it starts. He visits his aunt 1 time a year, now the government wants to get involved in her private business. This man has tried suicide 9 times in 13 years, not to say what's really on his mind but I'd say it's really a cry for help otherwise he'd have accomplished it by now.
Now the actions of one are going to effect the Constitutional rights of another, someone that he sees only once a year.....?
We have a few suicides in our city every year. All the ones I've seen were people who jumped off of a bridge and one who hung herself. Although I know people who've seen 2 with guns.
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-...159/when-deciding-to-live-means-avoiding-guns
Now the actions of one are going to effect the Constitutional rights of another, someone that he sees only once a year.....?
We have a few suicides in our city every year. All the ones I've seen were people who jumped off of a bridge and one who hung herself. Although I know people who've seen 2 with guns.
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-...159/when-deciding-to-live-means-avoiding-guns
When Deciding To Live Means Avoiding Guns
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015 5:04 AM ET
When you're managing a mental health issue, home's not always a safe place. I recently talked with a 23-year-old in Oakland, Calif., who says he's worried about an upcoming visit to his aunt's home on the East Coast. He's afraid of what he might do to himself there. "I know that in my aunt's house there are three guns in the basement," says the young man, who asked that NPR not use his name. He goes back to visit his family once a year, he explains, and usually stays with the aunt who owns the guns. Knowing where those weapons are stored is a particular problem for him, he tells me — he's tried to commit suicide nine times over the past 13 years. "Having tools for suicide completion ... makes it way more tempting to attempt or complete suicide," he says.
But what happens when you can't control the fact that there's a gun nearby? Some states, like Missouri and Florida, have laws forbidding doctors to ask patients about gun access and ownership. But that's not the case in California, where managed care provider Kaiser Permanente asks all teen patients about guns during their checkups, as part of its screening for potential health risks. To give us a better idea of how those conversations go, Dr. Lauren Hartman, who helped found Kaiser's East Bay teen clinic, ran through the typical interview — with Youth Radio's Kasey Saeturn playing the role of the patient:
That's a red flag for the doctor, and a signal she needs to intervene. Hartman: "So, Kasey, if it's OK with you, I would like to talk to your parents about how to keep the gun safely at home."