The US has only very recently started to eclipse other developed nations in suicide rate, and you can probably point to twenty years of war and the 2008 financi

The US has only very recently started to eclipse other developed nations in suicide rate, and you can probably point to twenty years of war and the 2008 financial collapse as having a significant role to play in this. Maybe social media too. But gun ownership (access to firearms) is not in any way correlated with high per capita suicide rates. For many decades you might have been able to show inverse correlation. If people want to suicide, they'll suicide.