State-wide gun ownership tied to suicide deaths
Hopefully not a dupe. . I know this has been brought up before in the past.
Damn BS!!
Hopefully not a dupe. . I know this has been brought up before in the past.
Damn BS!!
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Screw that. Yes, in Japan guns are nearly nonexistant. As such their gun suicide rate is one fiftieth (1/50th) of that in the US.
But their overall suicide rate is TWICE as high.
Access to guns doesn't CAUSE suicide.
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Aokigahara - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The most used method of suicide there is hanging and drug overdose. The manner in which one commits suicide is moot. If someone wants to off themselves they will.State-wide gun ownership tied to suicide deaths
Hopefully not a dupe. . I know this has been brought up before in the past.
Damn BS!!
Men hang themselves more often, women use pills.Aokigahara - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The most used method of suicide there is hanging and drug overdose. The manner in which one commits suicide is moot. If someone wants to off themselves they will.
In MA in 2011 there were over 6,000 suicide attempts. About 475 were successful, and 124 of those were by gun. The state did not report the number of failed attempts by gun, the vast majority are "poisoning.
#1 approach is by hanging, #2 is "poisoning" usually by drug overdose.
Gun succeeds are the one thing neither pros or antis usually want to talk about. Pros because it makes gun owners look crazy. Antis because if suicides are removed from homicide statistics (they're 55% nationwide IIRC) gun homicides are a much less significant public safety issue.
they always trot out this lame stat as if no commits suicide by other means.
A guy that I used to bowl with hung himself about 15 years ago, perhaps we should ban rope too?
Open mouth, insert double-barrel 12-gauge and squeeze both triggers simultaneously. Worked for Ernest Hemingway. Painless? Most likely. Leaves a big gory mess behind for some bereaved family member to see? Definitely.Do you want to cut an acre of grass with a 40" deck rider and a 6 pack of beer or a pair of kid's safety scissors? Exactly.
If you decide you want to kill yourself a gun is a great tool. It's most likely going to be extremely fast and virtually painless. You can't blame a tool for an act a person commits.
Men hang themselves more often, women use pills.
Here's the thing. Like many things in life, correlation ≠ causation. Owning a gun does not encourage nor cause one to commit suicide, but it does make the act of suicide easier and increases it's likelihood of success when one chooses to go forth with the act of taking their own life. It's far easier to put out a pistol and eat it than it does to set up a ligature using a rope and chair. But guns don't cause suicide, and the slightly less degree of effort to commit suicide utilizing a firearm hardly justifies laws intended to prevent an act easily achieved by other means.
Consequently, the following is worth listening to WRT suicide stats:
Freakonomics » New Freakonomics Radio Podcast: ?The Suicide Paradox?[/QUOTE
Exactly my point. These fools that want to paint guns as a cause for suicide should really have their credentials questioned.
These fools that want to paint guns as a cause for suicide should really have their credentials questioned.
I have an acquaintance who lost a friend by means of 'paint ball' - again, NOT the method! It's the controlled selection and message of the last act....in my never humble opinion. GOD, I wish I new nothing of this topic.
Open mouth, insert double-barrel 12-gauge and squeeze both triggers simultaneously. Worked for Ernest Hemingway. Painless? Most likely. Leaves a big gory mess behind for some bereaved family member to see? Definitely.