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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Rationality and fact based decision making has
been missing from most of the Idaho Legislature for decades.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=rforce2003@yahoo.com href="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com">Ron Force</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 18, 2011 8:00
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Guns on
campus</DIV>
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<DIV>Letter to the NY Times:<BR><BR><BR><BR>Reprints<BR>This copy is for
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now.<BR><BR>March 17, 2011<BR>Guns on Campus<BR>To the Editor:<BR><BR>Re
“School of Glock” (column, March 10):<BR><BR>As psychiatrists who have
done extensive work in college mental health and safety, we applaud Gail
Collins’s critique of efforts by several state legislators to loosen
restrictions on carrying guns on college campuses.<BR><BR>While there
have been a few highly publicized tragic shootings on college campuses
in recent years, over the last 10 years the average yearly rate of
homicide on college campuses has been approximately 1 per 1 million
students. Colleges are extraordinarily safe places.<BR><BR>In contrast,
suicide is 100 times as common — and suicide attempts 10,000 times as
common — as homicides on campus.<BR><BR>We also know that suicide
attempts involving firearms are dramatically more likely to result in
death to the attempter and potentially others than those made by other
means, like drug overdoses. Finally, 40 percent of college students
report bingeing on alcohol in any two-week period, a behavior associated
with both suicide and homicide risk.<BR><BR>Advocates of arming more
college students are therefore trying to protect against an extremely
rare event while potentially putting guns into the hands of large
numbers of depressed, suicidal or intoxicated students who will be at
increased risk, and put others at risk, too.<BR><BR> Victor
Schwartz<BR> Jerald Kay<BR> Paul Appelbaum<BR>New York, March 10,
2011<BR><BR>The writers are professors and administrators at Yeshiva
University, Wright State University and Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons, respectively, and Drs. Schwartz and Kay are
co-editors of “Mental Health Care in the College
Community.”<BR><BR></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR>
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