Gun Suicide Research Paper

While background checks might turn up people with severe mental illness who have been prone

to violence, gun suicides are often committed by people whose history doesn’t suggest a serious

problem. In studies, a quarter to a third of those who killed themselves were not in contact with

a psychiatrist at the time of death, and the majority were not on psychiatric medicines. “The first

time the family may know of the distress is when they kill themselves,” said Dr. David Gunnell, a

suicide epidemiologist at the University of Bristol in England. There may be no red flags and

little forethought. To carry out a campus killing rampage, perpetrators collect weapons, identify

victims and select locations. In contrast, suicides are often