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Force Science issues 100 and 101 deal with law enforcement officer suicides. As officers, they handle a gun more often than the general population, yet the study doesn't recommend separating officers from guns as a potential solution to suicidal tendencies. Guns are not a cause of depression, stress, frustration, mental instability, or any of the many other factors in suicides.
No matter what the occupation, whether military, special agent, or postal worker, guns are not a contributing factor to suicides or murders, they are only the tool used in a percentage of unfortunate occurrences. The entirety of tools used can never be eliminated from existence, nor should they be, and taking the focus off the problem and putting it on the tool solves nothing.
Force Science issues 100 and 101 deal with law enforcement officer suicides. As officers, they handle a gun more often than the general population, yet the study doesn't recommend separating officers from guns as a potential solution to suicidal tendencies. Guns are not a cause of depression, stress, frustration, mental instability, or any of the many other factors in suicides.
No matter what the occupation, whether military, special agent, or postal worker, guns are not a contributing factor to suicides or murders, they are only the tool used in a percentage of unfortunate occurrences. The entirety of tools used can never be eliminated from existence, nor should they be, and taking the focus off the problem and putting it on the tool solves nothing.