Murder/Suicide: A Gunloon Tradition
Early next year, the CDC will release the first detailed summary of a full year of violent death data from 16 of the 17 states now in a system that links police reports, death certificates and coroner’s and medical examiner reports.
That linking is aimed at a key problem in counting murder-suicides: each death is often classified separately - one murder, one suicide - without regard to the entire event.
The summary will provide the most complete picture to date of murder-suicides, including available information about victims’ medical and criminal behavior, substance abuse or previous conflicts with a romantic partner.
More evidence the unknown assailant isn’t the problem; it’s the gunloon.
