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Originally Posted by KMayUSA6060
If by attempt you mean successfully destroyed this ignorant argument, then yes, an attempt was made.
We have more firearms here than any other country in the world, so naturally there are going to be more suicides by firearm. In fact, I'm shocked we're not number 1.
What's appalling is your lack of care behind what is causing people to commit suicide, by your lack of care for the overall number instead of just the suicide by firearm statistic. You and many others are so hellbent on taking away firearms that you ignore the real problems.
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Thanks for adding your self-righteous indignation and outrage KMay. You never fail on that.
The idea that suicide rates go up with gun ownership (not just suicide by guns, but overall suicide rates more generally) is well-documented.
“Suicide attempts are often impulsive acts, driven by transient life crises,” the authors write. “Most attempts are not fatal, and most people who attempt suicide do not go on to die in a future suicide. Whether a suicide attempt is fatal depends heavily on the lethality of the method used — and firearms are extremely lethal. These facts focus attention on firearm access as a risk factor for suicide especially in the United States, which has a higher prevalence of civilian-owned firearms than any other country and one of the highest rates of suicide by firearm.”
Deertick acknowledged the mental health crisis underlying the suicide crises in this country, and that more attention/funding is needed to address the issue.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-ne...cide-risk.html
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazin.../guns-suicide/
https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/03/...tudy-confirms/