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The Growing Risk of Suicide in Rural America

By Penny Okamoto, Executive Director of Ceasefire Oregon

Here is an excellent article on how young people are at particular risk of suicide in rural America. Over half the youths who commit suicide do so with a gun.

Suicide is in many ways the oft-ignored aspect of gun violence in America.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/03/the-growing-risk-of-su…