Gun Control & RKBA

soldiers take live ammunition home in 2003 and no increase in other methods of suicide were observed. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23897090

There is abundant evidence that reducing the access to guns will decrease the overall suicide rate.

Only 4% of attempted suicides are successful. Of the 96% that fail only 10% attempt a second time. Of attempted suicides with guns 85% are completed on the first try.

Guns are extremely good at taking life, which is why people who are afraid of other people want one. If that knife or hammer we hear about were all that good at killing people that's what the self defense paranoid would have.

So if the those numbers are real, and I assure you they are, then reducing suicide by gun would reduce the overall suicide rate. As it did in Australia. Yes the overall Aussie suicide rate is close to the US rate (10.6/100,000 vs 12.1 for the US) it has decreased to that from a much higher number since the 1996 gun control act.


USA Suicide 2012 Official Final Data: CW Drapeau & JL McIntosh for the American Association of Suicidology October 2014
(from www.suicidology.org/Portals/14/docs/Resources/FactSheets/2012datapgsv1d.pdf).