Veronica A.Pear Amy Barnhorst people liking suicide violence Veronica A.Pear Amy Barnhorst

The Killer in Your Closet

Reading now: 680
www.psychologytoday.com

By: Veronica A. Pear, MPH, MA (lead author); Amy Barnhorst, MD; and Garen J. Wintemute, MD, MPH. Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has people around the world feeling vulnerable and scared.

In America, individualism and firearm culture have generated a unique response to this threat: stockpiling firearms and ammunition.1 Historically, it is unlikely that these firearms will be used defensively.2 In fact, there is strong evidence that, on balance, firearms in the home don’t protect people from harm.

Instead, they put everyone in the household at increased risk of injury.3 The social, emotional, and economic stress introduced by the coronavirus pandemic and the necessary measures we are taking to flatten the curve create a particularly volatile

Read more on psychologytoday.com
The website mental.guide is an aggregator of articles from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the article if you find it unreliable.

Related articles

DMCA