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Jack Reed: “Population is about 50 percent of the completed suicides in the civilian population are completed with a firearm; in the…”

On the recordMarch 20, 2013
Population is about 50 percent of the completed suicides in the civilian population are completed with a firearm; in the military I think it is closer to 60 percent.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Reed discusses firearm-related suicides in military versus civilian populations.

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