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About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guns don't cause suicide, but they make it much easier to successfully complete suicide

Handguns especially

But I doubt an increase in suicides this year from last year has anything to do with gun ownership rates

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I made a serious attempt once. I am anti-gun and didn't have access to one. I tried a different way. If someone is serious, they will find a way. (I'm doing much better, thanks)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you would have tired with a gun you would have succeeded. That's the point about guns and their availability.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Guns are the most fatal, but even then only have an 80% success rate:

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/case-fatality/

I personally knew a guy who tried and failed, living with 1/3rd of your brain missing is not pretty.