*All I know is she must have really wanted to make sure she was not going to survive. I mean, she shot herself in the head. She wanted to make sure this time it would work. She knew her pain would finally be over. Finally! (all in my opinion)
A woman’s risk of dying by suicide increases significantly when another adult she had been living with in a gun-free home becomes a first-time handgun owner, according to new research led by
Matt Miller, a professor of health sciences and epidemiology at Northeastern.
The
study is the first to reveal the second-hand risk of suicide that accompanies living in a home with a gun.
“The question that we asked is: ‘What happens to a woman’s risk of dying by suicide if an adult she is currently living with decides to become a lawful handgun owner?’” says Miller, who teamed with colleagues from Stanford, the University of California Davis, and the University of Pittsburgh. “What we found is her risk goes up by more than 40%, starting as soon as her cohabitant brings his handgun into their home.
A Northeastern health expert studied to see whether a woman's risk of suicide increased when another adult they were living with became a first-time handgun owner.
news.northeastern.edu