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New Colorado law could help prevent suicides
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The new law in Colorado expands the requirement for background checks to private and online gun sales. Previously, only licensed firearm dealers were required to run a background check. Now, nearly all firearm purchasers will have to undergo a background check, and experts in suicide prevention say adding that extra layer to the process could save lives.
"If you can make it difficult at that moment when they are serious about taking their lives, you get that chance to intervene," said Robert Gebbia, executive director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
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Gebbia likens the extra step built into a firearm purchase by a background check to suicide barriers on bridges.
"When they actually go to make an attempt, at that point they're intent on dying," he said. "They may change their mind, it does happen. Those feelings are often very impulsive and fleeting."
Read More: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57575721/new-colorado-gun-control-law-could-help-prevent-suicides/
The new law in Colorado expands the requirement for background checks to private and online gun sales. Previously, only licensed firearm dealers were required to run a background check. Now, nearly all firearm purchasers will have to undergo a background check, and experts in suicide prevention say adding that extra layer to the process could save lives.
"If you can make it difficult at that moment when they are serious about taking their lives, you get that chance to intervene," said Robert Gebbia, executive director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
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Gebbia likens the extra step built into a firearm purchase by a background check to suicide barriers on bridges.
"When they actually go to make an attempt, at that point they're intent on dying," he said. "They may change their mind, it does happen. Those feelings are often very impulsive and fleeting."
Read More: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57575721/new-colorado-gun-control-law-could-help-prevent-suicides/
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