by The Educational Fund to End Handgun Violence and The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence

About the authors: The Educational Fund to End Handgun Violence is a nonprofit organization that seeks to reduce gun violence through the legal system, educational services, and support of grassroots activists. The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence is a research and advocacy organization that seeks to control the sale and manufacture of guns and reduce gun-related violence.

Every year, firearm suicides account for just less than half of all firearm deaths and yet both sides of the gun control debate, along with the media and the general public, have shied away from this topic. It is time for the American people to understand that in looking for solutions to crime and violence by keeping a handgun at home they are placing themselves, and...