This rural California county’s problem is all too common: how to reduce suicides when everyone has a gun

This rural California county’s problem is all too common: how to reduce suicides when everyone has a gun

Shasta county has one of the state’s highest rates of suicide and gun ownership. Here’s how locals are trying to combat itLike many men in the mountainous California county of Shasta, about 200 miles north of San Francisco, Bill Rocha loved to hunt and fish, spending the infernal summers out on the lake in his boat. For decades he made his living as a contractor, working hard with his hands every day. And like many men in rural parts of the state, Bill was a gun owner. He had several hunting rif...

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