Re: Suicide rates and gun ownership
"So, if guns are the evil culprit, but are banned in the UK, then how are folks there killing themselves?"
They are hanging, suffocating or strangling themselves in over 61% (males) and 47% (female) of cases. Poisoning comes second, then further down drowning, jumping on moving objects, falling, and using sharp objects. Firearm related suicides exist but they're grouped in the Other category along with smoke, fire and unspecified.
UK Statistics Office has the suicide methods neatly broken down.
In the US firearms account for over 50% of suicides.
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