Blues Man
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So suicide using a gun is somehow worse than suicide using a razor blade, a rope, an overdose or a swan dive off a building?When you break that down by the method of suicide, you see that the US has 5.76 suicide deaths by guns per 100,000 people , Sweden has 0.85, France 1.1, Japan .03, the UK 0.14, Throughout the world, Greenland is the only country whose suicide rate by guns is higher. Our suicide rate by guns is many times higher than most of the world. We should do what they are doing.
Suicide rate by firearm
Annual number of suicides from firearms per 100,000 people. Suicide deaths are underreported in many countries due to social stigma and cultural or legal concerns. This data is adjusted for this underreporting to estimate the actual rate of suicides.ourworldindata.org