Sandra Steingard: The gun laws-suicide relation

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Sandra Steingard, M.D., who is chief medical officer of Howard Center and has worked in Vermont’s community mental health system for over 25 years.
As the Vermont Legislature considers gun legislation in the coming weeks, it would be worthwhile for its members to consider a recently published paper in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine titled, “State Firearm Laws and Interstate Firearm Deaths From Homicide and Suicide in the United States: A