ClaireH
Diamond Member
2aGuy- my apologies for being slightly off-topic but I hope you recognize the bottom-line connection about taking out suicides by guns to have a better assessment of “total gun death” claims.The point is somebody who is determined to commit suicide and uses a gun to do so is most likely still going to commit suicide using another means. I read that suffocation is the 2nd cause of suicide in the states, so likely those would increase significantly along with intentional OD’s,
use of knives and other means.Lethality of Suicide Methods
What Governs Lethality? A number of factors are theorized to influence the lethality of a given method. The first is inherent deadliness. For example, car exhaust with a high CO level will be more …www.hsph.harvard.edu
suicide by firearm is 82.5% effective
OD is only 1.5%
Plus how long it takes is also controlling. Long slow methods often bring a change of heart. While actions that can't be aborted once commenced, like firearms or jumping are usually fatal.
The following information questions that 1.5% effective OD rate” MGene and supports that currently it’s a much higher stat without question-if we’re talking unintentional and intentional ODs together or intentional OD’s alone.
Synthetic fentanyl has majorly increased global and US suicides. Until blue state governments/governors take responsibility for what they’re allowing to happen in their inner cities, and deal with these fentanyl profiteers they’ll be partly responsible for high numbers of fentanyl deaths. Maybe some of these blue state secretly think that’s the way to get rid of drug users, I don’t know but it’s backwards thinking. The drug cartels benefit financially from it without concern over consequences and their illegal profit margins continue to soar.
CDC reports a record 81,000 drug overdose deaths in the US in a 12-month period
Drug overdoses have been rising for decades, but data collected by the CDC shows that overdose deaths accelerated significantly in the first months of the pandemic.
www.wsws.org