Reducing access to firearms has helped reduce suicide deaths and improved survival rates of suicide attempts, according to the committee’s report, which includes 117 recommendations that stretch beyond safe firearm storage. In it, the department’s Suicide Prevention and Response Independent Review Committee made six recommendations that target safe firearms storage education for troops, better access to gun storage and locks, mandatory registration and storage requirements for personnel living in military family housing.
The Defense Department released a report Friday examining the suicide crisis in the military. She did what he asked of her and locked up the guns. This was the first time that Powell had learned her husband, who was being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder, had experienced thoughts of suicide and she was part of the plan to save him in a crisis.
Her husband, who requested he not be named, then began to describe a crisis safety plan that he and his therapist had discussed.
