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It is interesting to compare US vs Canadian suicide rates to see what impact gun ownership could have. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/jou

• falcrist 5y ago
  While I agree with the idea that removing a quick and accessible means of suicide can reduce suicide rates, there's a huge caveat on that article. > we did not have the ability to control for differences between the two countries including poverty, unemployment, health systems, cultural, or other differences The authors go on to suggest that they may in fact be underestimating the amount of suicides that could be averted with reduced gun ownership, but there are an awful lot of confounding factors that are simply not addressed in this paper.