Securing firearms have nothing to do with veteran suicides...we aren't talking about a teenager coming across a firearm and killing themselves, we are literally talking about combat veterans that own the firearms, The firearms have nothing more to do with veteran suicide than forks with obesity.
As posted above, this is literally a conduit to push red flag laws and get the bills passed, and you fell for it. Many others will fall for the...we are here to help and this doesn't sound so bad.
You want to show me you are serious about veteran suicides...stop talking about the guns...and start talking about funding programs that don't promote filling people up with anti depressants and drugs that (wait for it) have side effects that cause suicidal thoughts, make an investment in real doctors, that care about what they are doing and don't just treat veterans like a number. There are many others but that is just a start.
Instead....lets have a little study about firearms and suicide...of course firearms are used in a lot of suicides, its efficient and usually works....if there were no firearms it would be something else.
Stop treating an inanimate object and using it to further an agenda, and actually look at the human beings behind the pain causing the issue in the first place.
But if it makes you feel warm and fuzzy to think this is something more than it really is...go for it...
Sorry, but a veteran suicide is no more or less tragic than suicide by a teen, or a depressed, out of work accountant.
To restate: I have no problem with publicly funded, public relations campaigns at key contact points, e.g., gun dealers including a safe gun storage pamphlet with a gun sale. There are a lot of new gun owners out there who aren't used to thinking through the implications of ready access to a loaded gun, and may not know what options they have for securing their weapons.
Yes, there are other, legal initiatives I am not in favor of, specifically trying to curtail due process.
I'm not going to knee-jerk reject the good with the bad. I prefer to separate the issues and accept or fight them on the merits of each. Hard to live in a society with people of differing views if you are unwilling to see anything other than red flags every time they open their mouths.