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> Some of the places where it does not cause big problems (eg Switzerland) have liberal gun laws and high ownership rates. So you don't consider suicides to be

• dalbasal 9y ago
  Sorry. I never should have used guns as an example. I don't know much about it, and it's hard to deal in "not a problem" terms when it comes to life and death. I do think even this speaks to my point though, about looking at examples as fully fleshed out examples. There are all sorts of "gun problems." All sorts of "gun rules." All sorts of simple and complex relationships between those two things and a whole lot of other things. The relationship between gun accessability and suicide is fairly straightforward. But both suicide and gun availability are related to a bunch of other things. *I'm not talking about gun laws (don't live in the US, own guns or have a strong opinion), I'm talking about how we think of policies using examples.
• foxhound6 9y ago
  Seems that Australia has a higher suicide rate than Switzerland. Didn't Australia ban guns? https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/who-findings_switzerland-reports-above-average-suicide-numbers/40589132 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/who-findings_switzerland-report... http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/09/27/australias-suicide-crisis-has-peaked-to-a-terrifying-new-height_a_21480647/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/09/27/australias-suici...
  • Nursie 9y ago
    Not entirely, but they made owning them very tricky unless you're a farmer AFAICT. City dwellers can own handguns, but they must stay locked up at the gun club when not in use at the gun club.