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title: 'Professor Vars Comments on His Proposal to Help Prevent Suicide'
date: '2018-09-27T11:18:30-05:00'
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# Professor Vars Comments on His Proposal to Help Prevent Suicide

Professor Fred Vars is quoted in the [Times-Picayune](http://nola.com) about his proposal that allows residents to voluntarily suspend their ability to purchase a gun.

His goal of having laws in all 50 states received an unexpected push in August when he received a call from a woman in New Orleans who said her mother had just killed herself with a .38-caliber revolver.

For more, read [“After Mother’s Suicide, Katrina Brees Fights for ‘No Guns’ Self-Registry.”](https://www.nola.com/expo/news/erry-2018/09/39f7db7652102/after-mothers-suicide-katrina.html)