Do Guns Cause Adolescents to Commit Suicide?
By Robert B. Young, MD Short answer: No. But you wouldn’t know that from the breathless media coverage of a recent study from the Boston University and Harvard’s T.C. Chan’s Schools of Public Health. “Household Gun Ownership and Youth Suicide Rates at the State Level, 2005–2015” was published online by the American Journal of Preventive MedicineJanuary 17. Suicide is a complex … Read more