People are quite particular about their methods of suicide. They usually don't want to have any pain, but prefer to die instantly. No method checks as many of

People are quite particular about their methods of suicide. They usually don't want to have any pain, but prefer to die instantly. No method checks as many of these boxes as using a gun. I got the previous argument as saying exactly that the main method of suicide in Europe is hanging, and not shooting, and therefor taking guns away from most people who don't have a positive need to be armed or with doubts about their reliability wouldn't affect suicides in a significant manner. Otherwise citing that article makes no sense to me, since it actually points to guns being a major factor. It's impossible to infer the effect of gun ownership on suicide rates by looking at countries. Too many confounding factors, too little number of countries. Same goes for states in the US. Suicide is a very culturally shaped topic, and on top of that it is affected by the health system, economy and various other factors.