{"id":129289,"date":"2022-08-16T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129289"},"modified":"2022-08-15T19:34:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T23:34:16","slug":"seems-px-gun-sales-are-being-scrutinized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129289","title":{"rendered":"Seems PX gun sales are being scrutinized"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gun sales in the PX are drawing attention from suicide prevention folks, according to the the Military Times. Example, a young Marine named Muhlstadt:<\/p>\n

But the doctor and Marine Corps didn’t know Muhlstadt had a gun he had bought weeks before at the Marine Corps Exchange store, or MCX, at Twentynine Palms. He had hidden it, like many Marines, in his barracks instead of checking the weapon into the armory as required.<\/p>\n

Muhlstadt used the gun to take his own life on Nov. 19, two days after his checkup with the doctor. That day, he had gone shopping, even buying a trigger lock with plans of hiding the gun with a friend while out of town. To his mother, his death seemed extremely impulsive — only possible because of her son’s ready access to a firearm — and pointed to a glaring loophole for those at risk of suicide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The problem, according to the article, is that at base exchanges across the country guns can be purchased by service members – 113,000 of them last year. Not everyone in the barracks is doing the right thing by signing said weapons into the company arms room as required. Since most suicides are called out as spur-of-the-moment decisions, and so far 3400 serrvice members have killed themselves since 2015, scrutiny is being placed on those pesky gun sales. Now, I’m a show-me-the-numbers kind of guy. With 72 suicides thus far in 2022, let’s say by year end that will double to 140-150. When I look at 113,200 gun sales…I get around 1% being a problem. 3400 in the last 7.5 years is an average of 340 a year, which could indicate more like a 2% problem. And there is no further breakdown of the numbers to show better data.<\/p>\n

I like to tread carefully around suicides.\u00a0 Like most, I have had friends take the fast exit and one at least still haunts me… but it sure seems they are demonizing a very few sales (and let’s not forget that the ones not checking their POWs into the arms room if they reside in barracks are already breaking the rules) and I’m not sure there isn’t a tempest brewing inthe teapot.<\/p>\n

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