More guns do not equal more gun suicide....

[2aguy]

This is another anti gun bait and switch as well as a myth....

The anti gunners talk about gun deaths.....knowing that the uninformed will assume they mean gun murder...when the anti gunners are actually including suicide in the total...which is the only way to get a big number.....

But..as more Americans have bout guns.....suicide rates with guns have not increased....

Showing once again that nothing the anti gunners say about guns it true....

Fraction of Suicides with Guns vs Per Capita Guns in the U.S. 1981 to 2014 - The Truth About Guns

Guns were chosen for .58 of all suicides in 1981. The fraction of suicides committed with guns rose to high of .61 from 1990 to 1997 (the high point of homicides was 1993-95), then started a long decline ending at .49, the record low, in 2014.

Per capita numbers of private firearms increased from .754 in 1981 to 1.176 in 2014. While the fraction of suicides committed with guns fell 16 percent, the per capita number of guns in the country rose 56 percent.

More guns have not increased the fraction of suicides committed with guns over several economic cycles.

 

[Rustic]

More firearms equal happier public... Thus a safer one.

 

[oldsoul]

This is another anti gun bate and switch as well as a myth....

The anti gunners talk about gun deaths.....knowing that the uninformed will assume they mean gun murder...when the anti gunners are actually including suicide in the total...which is the only way to get a big number.....

But..as more Americans have bout guns.....suicide rates with guns have not increased....

Showing once again that nothing the anti gunners say about guns it true....

Fraction of Suicides with Guns vs Per Capita Guns in the U.S. 1981 to 2014 - The Truth About Guns

Guns were chosen for .58 of all suicides in 1981. The fraction of suicides committed with guns rose to high of .61 from 1990 to 1997 (the high point of homicides was 1993-95), then started a long decline ending at .49, the record low, in 2014.

Per capita numbers of private firearms increased from .754 in 1981 to 1.176 in 2014. While the fraction of suicides committed with guns fell 16 percent, the per capita number of guns in the country rose 56 percent.

More guns have not increased the fraction of suicides committed with guns over several economic cycles.

Hard to refute cold hard facts. One can only run from them or try to distort them.

 

[Pogo]

More guns do not equal more gun suicide....

Nope, assuming the number of suicide-committers remains constant, more guns shouldn't equal more suicides.
They would just make it easier to accomplish.

This is another anti gun bate and switch as well as a myth....

"Bate and switch"

I love it. I'm gonna steal it. It's got great potential.

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