A Ventura County thinks we need to do more to prevent suicides with guns, by putting warning labels on them.
Democratic Congresswoman Julia Brownley of Westlake Village introduced a new bill calling for the labels. The labels would say if you, or someone you known is contemplating suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention hotline. The label would include the phone number.
Brownley says two thirds of the gun deaths in the United States are suicides.
She says there’s another reason for her proposal. The congresswoman says 20 veterans a day commit suicide, and 70% of those deaths involved firearms.
