Red flag laws may prevent more suicides than mass shootings
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April 13, 2018
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Before her brother took his own life, Mary Miller-Strobel said she and her father begged every store in town that sold firearms to turn him away.
"'If he comes, call me,'" Miller-Strobel said her dad pleaded while waving her brother's picture at store managers in Charlotte, Michigan, in 2006. "'Just call me. I will come.'"
She said the responses were the same: "'Second amendment, sorry.'" Two months later, her brother, Ben, shot himself with a revolver.
Today, Miller-Strobel is 36 and a social worker in Wayne County. She said she still doesn't understand why her 26-year-o...
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