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ER Doc: Protecting kids from gun violence must include discussion of suicide

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In this file photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, a gun shop owner demonstrates how a gun lock works on a handgun.

School shootings are terrifying. Yet suicide, by gun, is a far greater threat to young people. Emergency physician, Dr. Emmy Betz, of CU Anschutz, wants more families to talk about it. Betz is also a champion of safe storage of firearms -- given how often parents' weapons are involved in children's deaths.