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Laws Keep Mentally Ill From Buying Guns, But Gun Suicides Continue Apace

by Ben Botkin April 12, 2018October 28, 2019

Nearly 58 percent of Oklahoma’s suicides last year involved firearms. Mental-health experts say that so-called “red flag” laws, which allow police to even temporarily confiscate guns if a person poses a risk to themselves or others, could help lower the state’s stubbornly high suicide rate.

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