To Prevent a Suicide: Hope Is Not a Plan

Important info from the University of Washington School of Public Health. Image by Elizar Mercado.

On September 24, in Collierville, Tennessee, some asshole shot up a Kroger supermarket. A few hours after the shooting stopped, and one victim died and fourteen others were being worked on in area hospitals, a small-town Chief of Police stood before a slew of reporters and microphones, as small-town Chiefs invariably do these days when some asshole shoots up a supermarket, or a house of worship, or a school, or an…