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I'm not sure how this all plays out in policy, but outside of the criticism of the gun community and it relates to deaths by firearms - we have half the suicide

I'm not sure how this all plays out in policy, but outside of the criticism of the gun community and it relates to deaths by firearms - we have half the suicide rate in the United States as Japan - which has almost no access to firearms by its general population. It's worth noting in relevance, because the politics in Healthcare reflect the policy of public opinion as well as legislation around other tangent issues our country is trying to reconcile what it wants to do (if anything) about it.

DanBC 7y ago
> we have half the suicide rate in the United States as Japan What definition for suicide does the US use? What definition for suicide does Japan use? EDIT: and you don't have anything like half the rate. Comparing across countries is hard, but Japan has a rate of about 17 per 100,000 while the US has a rate of about 14 per 100,000.