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How much 'killing distance' do you think is involved when gun ownership is associated with 8x higher chance of suicide for men, and 35x higher chance of suicide
by wildrhythms 3y ago
How much 'killing distance' do you think is involved when gun ownership is associated with 8x higher chance of suicide for men, and 35x higher chance of suicide for women?
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/06/handgun-ownership-associated-with-much-higher-suicide-risk.html https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/06/handgun-owner...
- Pannoniae 3y agoBecause in other places, there are way fewer effective methods of suicide, so people are scared into staying alive and suffering. Guns provide an almost sure way of ending your life, which is I think a way humane thing to do than forcing people to stay alive and suffer.
- rolph 3y agodoes owning the gun do this? always flip the coin. tryout elevated suicidal ideation partialy presents as possesion/purchase of a handgun. kick that about in thought, if it seems stable that can be considered a perihypothesis