Amid suicide 'epidemic,' military at odds with NRA over law
Published: July 28, 2012
To help combat suicide in the military, leaders would like greater leeway in talking to a servicemember about it and whether they personally own a firearm. Standing in their way, is a new law backed by the National Rifle Association that is frustrating things.
Some U.S. military commanders are at odds with the National Rifle Association over a relatively new law that bars them from talking to a servicemember about their personal firearms if the individual lives off base, according to a Christian Science Monitor article.
The NRA-backed law, which went into effect in early 2011, includes language that prohibits them from talking to their charges about weapons and safety, particularly when they live off base. The article relied heavily on Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, the Army's former vice chief of staff.
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
Military Suicides leave DOD and NRA at odds
Why would this happen? The number one choice of suicides connected to military service is a firearm. Does the NRA care about any of this? No one is talking about taking away their guns. As I've pointed out a thousand times I'd rather see a veteran with a gun and getting help than not getting help. Besides, if you take away their guns they use the next in line for ways to commit suicide. Still what is wrong with talking to them about all this? If the DOD wanted to prevent suicides then they would drop the BS program called "resiliency" and finally open up their ears to hear what they can do. This is about to get a lot worse the long troops are in Afghanistan and still not getting the right kind of help. The NRA should be more involved in saving their lives than stopping the commanders from even talking to them!
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The best way to stop this,is not have anymore wars that are started by lies,and not haveing the draft.And even then we will have problems,there hasnt been a war since ww2 that we should have been involved in.No more wars started with lies is thw answer,afganistan people didnt do anything to us pakistan didnt invade us nor did irac.Viet Nam did not invade us and the people of all these countrys did was what we would have done DEFEND OURSELVES.
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