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Israeli soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda Haredi infantry battalion stand at attention during their swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem May 26, 2013,

How a Heavily Armed Country Cut Gun Suicide

Inside Israel’s suicide prevention programs

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A white hand with the cuff of a blue jacket reaches out to tie an orange ribbon onto a chain-link fence covered in orange ribbons in honor of those killed by gun violence

Better Mental Health Care Is Unlikely to Fix America's Gun Problem

by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Laurent Grosvenor

But reducing alcohol use, promoting gun-free homes, and curbing domestic violence hold promise

Old coffee cans of shotgun shells dropped off to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department at the “Gifts for Guns” buyback in Compton, California on January 21, 2013. Picture shows two bright red, rusted out coffee tins filled to the brim with shotgun shells, red shells in the first tin, blue in the second. REUTERS/David McNew

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The Global Experience of Gun Control

by Vin Gupta

Firearm Deaths, including suicides, are averted when treated as a public health problem—so why not in the United States?