(June 13, 2016 at 7:14 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(June 13, 2016 at 3:52 am)Huggy74 Wrote: [...]Guns aren't a determining factor in whether or not someone commits suicide.[...]
Of course they are. Are you even serious? It's a quick solution immediately available, when a mentally distraught person feels momentarily suicidal. There's not much time between pulling the trigger and the brain splattering, so not much chance for changing one's mind, or getting help - as there is with suicide methods, like cutting wrists, swallowing poison, or overdosing on drugs.
Sure - banning guns wouldn't end suicide - but it would most likely significantly lower the number of successful ones. US per capita suicide rate is twice that of UK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co...icide_rate). Why is that? We must be doing something right. Maybe it's the free health-care (but then there are countries with free health-care, that have suicide rates way higher), maybe it's economical stability (but that's not really different in US), maybe it's the sunny weather, glorious food and naturally happy people, Britain is known for...
But maybe it's just that we don't have tools for killing on our persons at all times...
Can you explain why America is at #50 for suicide, then, behind countries which have drastically restricted (to the point of outlawing) the private ownership of guns, such as Japan or South Korea? By your logic, we ought to be topping that list.
As much as it pains me to do so, I have to agree with Huggy on this one. Guns may make suicides easier, but when a person wants to off himself, it will happen.
