Are you really so much happier bleeding out after receiving a knife wound than a gunshot wound? Guns are extremely effective for suicide; while there’s a prett

Are you really so much happier bleeding out after receiving a knife wound than a gunshot wound? Guns are extremely effective for suicide; while there’s a pretty good argument that removing suicide vectors actually reduces suicide (and doesn’t just displace it into substitutes), I think it’s a pretty reasonable point that battery and other violence are what you should really be dispatching on. Unfortunately, with all that said, the US in aggregate is slightly more violent than a lot of other industrialized cultures, so I can’t say the concerns about visiting the US are completely unwarranted. But I do get suspicious when people criticizing the US for its violence (as potential tourists) are then happy to visit less developed nations, which are typically significantly more violent per capita.