‘Noah’s Wounds Were Not Survivable’: Parents Allow Detailed View of AR-15 Carnage

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‘Noah’s Wounds Were Not Survivable’: Parents Allow Detailed View of AR-15 Carnage

The Washington Post exposé has been described as “the most powerful article you will read this week” and “one of the most important pieces of journalism ever produced.” On Monday morning, The Washington Postpublished a series of 3D animations to show “how bullets from an AR-15 blow the body apart.” A few hours later, a 28-year-old shooter […]

Rethinking Lethality in Youth Suicide Attempts

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Rethinking Lethality in Youth Suicide Attempts

First suicide attempts are more lethal than previously realized, reports a  study of children and adolescentspublished in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP). Seventy-one percent of youth dying by suicide did so on their first attempt, also known as the “index” attempt; the authors also found that firearms are implicated in 85 percent […]