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Reducing gun suicides, our housing shortage and more: Letters

Letter writers advocate for bills to reduce suicide by firearm, increasing housing; blast giving school vouchers to wealthy families with no oversight.

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We have lost loved ones to suicides. Here's what we can do to help others in distress.

We hope that improvements in firearm safety laws will mean that fewer families will go on to feel the painful loss that we have personally felt.

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Gun deaths are rising in Wisconsin. We take a look at why.

In Wisconsin last year, more than 800 people died from gunshot wounds, a 95% rate increase when adjusted for population growth since 2004, data show.

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Gun deaths are rising in Wisconsin. Suicide and rural areas are a big part of the picture

As gun deaths in Wisconsin reach record levels, the Journal Sentinel examined how the deaths affect every county in the state.

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With gun suicides at record levels in the US, rates differ markedly by state policies on gun safety, new report shows

As gun suicides climb to record levels in the United States, there’s a stark and growing difference in rates among states with stronger gun safety law and those with weaker policies, a new report shows.

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CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta

experiencing and in our families and our communities, it is a continuation of a trend that pre-dated covid by over a decade. one of the saddest things about this increase in suicide deaths is the greatest increase in suicide deaths is firearm suicides or gun suicides. those have made up more than half of suicide deaths for a very long time and we've seen that percentage increase in this latest year. and so for folks that are watching, i urge you if you have a friend or a family member that is feeling depressed or going through a moment of stress, to make sure that their connected to help, to know that you care about them and if they own or have access to a firearm, make sure that they can't acscess it until they're feeling better. that is best thing you could do to save someone's life. >> dr. plmegan ranney, thank yo so much. we appreciate it. >> thank you. and just a note to anyone struggling or who knows someone

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Fareed Zakaria GPS

were 31 gun homicides, 31. even accounting for its larger population, calculating deaths per 100,000 people, the united states in had roughly 100 times as many gun homicides as the uk. the comparison in suicides is equally as depressing. in 2021, 26,328 americans took their own lives using guns. about half the people who killed themselves in america use guns to do it. in the uk in 2019, the number was 117. and of all suicides, death by firearm is one of the rarest methods. with 4% of the worlds population, the united states has about 44% of the world's gun suicides.

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Fareed Zakaria GPS

world's gun suicides. great britain is actually a useful point of comparison in cultural terms it is this country's closest relative the mother ship that created the colonies from which the united states of america sprang. it has strong traditions of individualism, rights and liberty that pre-figure americas. even one of the more violent strains of american culture, the scotch-irish tradition in parts of the south, owe their origins to the british isles and yet, with regard to contemporary gun violence, britain looks like most other advanced industrial countries. america, meanwhile, might as well be on another planet. perhaps because it draws on the same history of liberties and rights as america, britain was not always exempt from the gun violence and mass shootings and british gun laws changed substantially after two mass shootings. in 1987 in hungerford and then

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Ayman

pandemic. gun murders in particular have climbed sharply during the pandemic, increasing 45% between 2019 and 2021. while the number of gun suicides rose -- during that span. we are becoming a more deadly country. we've seen this in texas last week with a neighborly dispute. something that happens millions of times, perhaps, on any given day in this country. turning to a mass shooting and a man hunt. >> we're solving problems with hates, for solving problems with guns, we are solving problems with mass shootings. that is not what it democracy should look like. . and that is not what america should be turning into. we have an obligation to stand

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Dateline

and they let detective jones know it. i talked to aaron jones, i don't think he believed you. >> i'm sure he didn't. >> it look like a suicide. >> that's correct. >> something you said to him or some way you said it made him think that he needed to dig a little deeper. >> yes. i promised tera's mom and dad that i would look at it. i knew that i couldn't just close this case without looking at it and digging into it. to begin with, jones knew from experience, that bedroom scene was very unusual. women make up just 10% of gun suicides. and he wondered about that recent break in attempt and levi's stolen truck. had someone been casing the neighborhood? maybe targeting the officer's house? >> i wanted to check and make sure that there wasn't any kind of indication of any kind of break-in or maybe somebody else had done this. >> nothing seemed to be missing from the house.

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