Research indicates a quarter of suicides occur within the first five minutes of an individual’s decision to take his or her life. In the Air Force, personally-owned firearms are used in 70% of suicide attempts. So in many cases, just five minutes can mean the difference between life and death. That’s why during September – Suicide Prevention Awareness Month – the Air Force is introducing a new approach to suicide prevention called Time-Based Prevention – to focus on the “means” of suicide. Suicide attempts with a firearm are 90% lethal. Safely stored firearms, or firearms safely removed from the home and stored securely, require deliberate access actions to operate, creating a barrier and assisting in the prevention of suicide attempts using firearms. Time-based Prevention efforts are not intended to limit or prohibit the legal ownership or use of firearms for individuals. Airmen are encouraged to go “SLO” by storing firearms in proper storage safes, use cable locks when firearms are not in use and use local armories or ranges with storage options.
| Date Taken: | 08.20.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 09.16.2019 12:41 |
| Category: | PSA |
| Video ID: | 709275 |
| VIRIN: | 191609-F-F3225-1080 |
| Filename: | DOD_107228482 |
| Length: | 00:01:52 |
| Location: | US |
| Downloads: | 39 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 39 |
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