Is it just me?

Is it just me, or does this not make a whole lot of sense? The Pentagon and Congress are moving to establish policies intended to separate service personnel at risk for suicide from their "personal" weapons.

Their plan is to encourage friends and families of potentially suicidal service members to safely store or remove personal firearms from their homes. The goal, according to Dr Jonathan Woodson, is ". . .responsibly separating the individual at risk from the firearm." Congress is also ready to pass legislation that would allow military mental health counselors and commanders to talk to troops about their "private" firearms.

So, we're going to separate military personnel from their own and their family's firearms while they're at home, then we're going to put a military weapon in their hands when they go to work. Am I missing something, or is it that they can't commit suicide with a service weapon? And if they are that much of a danger to themselves, shouldn't they be given a medical discharge or at least hospitalized? I don't know about you, but if I were serving in a war zone (or anywhere else, for that matter), I wouldn't want the guy serving next to me to be so messed up that he would just as soon die as not.

"Plan seeks to keep guns away from suicidal soldiers." The Dallas Morning News; October 8, 2012; p. 4A.