Suicide is the leading cause of gun-related deaths in the United States. But it's often only an afterthought in the public debate about gun violence.
It was an early summer morning in 2018, and Alex Patrick Umble’s family hadn’t heard from him. His mother, Maura Condon Umble, thought his absence was strange, but she didn’t panic.While Maura was at work, her boss was on the phone with the director of public safety at a nearby college, who reported that a young man had shot himself on the school’s athletic field.
When gun violence in America is discussed, people typically think about mass shootings, homicides or even domestic violence. But, in fact, the majority of gun-related deaths in the United States are suicides.. Over half of those deaths were suicides.A photo of Maura Umble, her son Alex Patrick Umble and their family. that advocates for stricter gun laws, says big cities have typically had the highest gun death rates. But that trend has started to shift.
“When there’s a mass shooting or homicides, there’s a lot more coverage, and of course, those are very tragic, but suicides kind of kind of slip under the radar a little bit,” Nestadt said. “There’s not as much willingness to talk about them. I think that’s changing. It becomes hard to ignore as the rates climb.”More than 900 people in Pennsylvania die by gun suicides every year and 48 are wounded by gun suicide attempts.
As with other forms of gun violence, raising awareness around suicide means having conversations about the very sensitive and often uncomfortable topic.
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