With gun violence now the leading cause of death among young people, gun control advocates say there is an urgent need to raise the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles.
"That's a huge effect," said Michael Siegel, one of the study's authors and a professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine."Clearly, keeping guns out of the hands of these young, young adults has a profound effect on suicide rates. And it makes sense because we know that the greatest factor that affects suicide rates is the availability of lethal means, which basically means a gun.
Efforts to raise the purchase age, however, face headwinds on multiple fronts. On Wednesday, the Democratic-controlled House passed some of the most sweeping gun control legislation in years, including a measure that would set a minimum age of 21 for semi-automatic rifle purchases. But the bill is all but certain to fail in the Senate, where Democrats lack the votes to overcome a Republican filibuster.
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