With Guns, Suicide Is the Biggest Problem

Elizabeth Prewitt PACEsConnection writer 4/15/144:00 AM

Every day, 88 people die from firearm-related injury; two-thirds of those deaths are suicides, a high proportion of which are committed by seniors and individuals living in rural areas, researchers reported here.

"Mass shooting episodes are obviously horrible," Molly Cooke, MD, president of the American College of Physicians (ACP), told reporters in a press briefing. "But one of the points we make in the paper is that every day there are 88 firearms-related deaths."

ACP leadership presented a policy paper on reducing gun-related injuries and deaths at a press briefing at the society's Internal Medicine 2014 annual meeting. The paper was simultaneously published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ACP/45229

Article in Annals:

http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1860325

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