Japan suicide rate 2018: 18.5 per capita[1] USA suicide rate 2018: 15.3 per capita[1] USA gun death rate 2018 (excluding suicides): 4.5 per capita[2] 15.3 +

Japan suicide rate 2018: 18.5 per capita[1] USA suicide rate 2018: 15.3 per capita[1] USA gun death rate 2018 (excluding suicides): 4.5 per capita[2] 15.3 + 4.5 = 19.8 Like I said, 18.5 is only slightly less than 19.8. Consider also that like GP said, Japan suicides are at an all time low right now. Japan's suicide rate just a few years ago (2014, I think?) was over 20 per capita if I recall correctly, so this claim would have been even more compelling in 2014 when Japan suicides were higher and USA suicide and gun violence rates were lower. Maybe it's more useful to examine decade averages? [1] http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/suicide-rate-by-country/ http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/suicide-rate-by-c... [2] https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls Per capita rate calculated by dividing 14,777 deaths / 3272 (population of US in 2018 in 100k blocks)