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Reducing the access to means of suicide greatly reduces the number of suicides. Many suicides are the result of a short term crisis or encouraged by having an e
by helsinkiandrew 4y ago
Reducing the access to means of suicide greatly reduces the number of suicides. Many suicides are the result of a short term crisis or encouraged by having an easy means todo it.
So getting rid of the unused gun in the attic for a few hundred or thousand dollars may well be a simple and cheap technique to reduce suicides.
- ipaddr 4y agoRates of suicide are higher in places without guns.
- helsinkiandrew 4y agoI didn’t say the opposite. But reducing the means reduces the numbers of suicides. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/