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Experts at Essex County forum push secure storage, suicide-focused prevention
Summary
A Rutgers researcher and gun-safety advocates told an Essex County panel that firearm suicides account for a majority of gun deaths and urged the county to promote secure-storage programs, messaging and voluntary off-site storage options to reduce deaths.
At a public forum convened by an Essex County ad hoc committee on gun violence, Mike Anestas, executive director of the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers, told commissioners that firearm suicides make up a large share of the nation's gun deaths and require targeted prevention.
"Fifty-five percent of all suicide deaths in the United States come from self-inflicted gunshot wounds," Anestas said, adding that firearms used in suicide attempts result in death about 90% of the time. He told the committee that when a firearm is…
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