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Exactly. It's obvious that suicide by gun is going to be correlated to gun ownership, but that's not valuable information at all. The much more interesting ques
by losvedir 6y ago
Exactly. It's obvious that suicide by gun is going to be correlated to gun ownership, but that's not valuable information at all. The much more interesting question of whether suicide is correlated to gun ownership was (for me) striking in its absence. I guess there's no good data for it.
- James_Henry 6y agoThere's ok data. Take a look at this paper https://mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/BriggsTabarrokFirearmsSuicide.pdf https://mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/BriggsTabarrokFirearmsSuicid... and this page from our world in data https://ourworldindata.org/suicide#gun-prevalence https://ourworldindata.org/suicide#gun-prevalence Also of interest to me is how regulating alcohol and other drug use influences suicide. Because of the failures of the war on drugs and prohibition, this doesn't seem to be a very popular topic of study, but I reckon that making alcohol harder to get would decrease the number of suicides.