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Observation O’ The Day
\nMother Jones couldn’t even put one of their own “beloved” above their cause. He didn’t even use a gun in his suicide, but they stood on his still warm body to promote gun control.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mother Jones Pushes Red Flag Laws After Gun Control Activist Kills Himself<\/a><\/p>\n

Mother Jones<\/em>\u00a0pushed red flag laws after announcing that former executive director of Everytown for Gun Safety, Mark Glaze, killed himself.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0noted<\/a>, \u201cGlaze, who was widely considered a founding figure in the modern gun-control movement, died on Oct. 31 in Scranton, Pa.\u201d<\/p>\n

NYT<\/em>\u00a0went on to point out that Glaze\u2019s death was a suicide.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0Facebook post<\/a>\u00a0from Glaze\u2019s family members reads, in part:<\/p>\n

As we celebrate the life of our beloved Mark, we would be remiss not to mention his harrowing struggle with alcohol, depression, and anxiety. In the last years of his life, Mark actively sought help. He completed several treatment programs, with the hope of finding peace and breaking free of the addictive cycle that caused him to feel so desperately alone and in pain. Mark took his own life while being held on DUI charges at the Lackawanna County Prison. While it may be difficult to discuss this specific cause of death, with suicide as the tenth leading cause of mortality in the United States\u2013 the numbers and instances are too frequent and increasing to ignore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mother Jones\u00a0reported\u00a0Glaze\u2019s suicide, then pushed red flag laws<\/p>\n

There is no indication that Mark used a gun to kill himself. Still, he was a victim of a scourge he worked to oppose. Nearly two-thirds of all gun deaths in the US are suicides,\u00a0according\u00a0to Mark\u2019s former organization. To fight gun violence is to fight suicide. Research\u00a0shows\u00a0that people who have access to guns are far more likely to kill themselves than people who don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Glaze and others in his field advocated for the\u00a0enactment,\u00a0in 19 states and DC, of so-called Red Flag laws, which allow local police to confiscate guns from people who have threatened to harm themselves or others. These orders aim to stop not just murder, but suicide. Evidence\u00a0suggests\u00a0they are most effective at preventing people from shooting themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Observation O’ The Day Mother Jones couldn’t even put one of their own “beloved” above their cause. He didn’t even use a gun in his suicide, but they stood on his still warm body to promote gun control. Mother Jones Pushes Red Flag Laws After Gun Control Activist Kills Himself Mother Jones\u00a0pushed red flag laws … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,89,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-observation-o-the-day","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74098,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74097\/revisions\/74098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}