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Repeal a provision barring military commanders from talking with service members about personally owned firearms.

Created by M.B. on January 01, 2013

Let them ask.

"In 2011 the US military lost 165 soldiers to suicide, [in] 2009 [...] 160."
"[At] the end of November the suicide deaths are up to 303."
"Putting this in perspective,[...] the overall US death toll in Afghanistan is 307, including non-combat deaths."
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-lost-more-troops-to-suicide-than-combat-...

"The report, issued by the Center for a New American Security, recommends that Congress repeal a provision in last year’s [2010] National Defense Authorization Act that bars military commanders from talking with troops about troops’ personally owned firearms — a factor in nearly half of soldier suicides last year."
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/11/07/362689/nra-military-suicides/#

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