(August 6, 2019 at 12:57 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(August 6, 2019 at 8:22 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Half of those 36000 are suicides.
" well if they didn't have access to a gun they wouldn't kill themselves"
Bullshit.
People use a gun when they are fully committed to whacking themselves. It' s not a halfassed attempt.
Get rid of guns and the number of people stepping off high buildings will go up just as fast as the people go down...
Or you could figure on using other means like drug overdoses, which will be less likely to work. Anyone who's done the slightest bit of research into suicide knows that, while men are three times more likely to actually kill themselves than women, women are three times more likely than men to try. And part of why this is is because men are more likely to shoot themselves, because they're more likely to actually have guns to shoot themselves with.
You can' t drive to work if you don't have a car.
If a guy is planning on offing himself and he doesn't have a gun - he will go get one - or step off the high building.
Simply having a gun isn't an indicator of suicidal intent.
