Blantantly false
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Top 20 states with registered firearms only have Colorado in the top 20 states with highest suicide rates. This goes for countries as well as the states as in the top 20 countries with civilian rates of firearms (and no I am not talking about a few people hording guns but individual owners versus the population) also are not near the top 20 countries with high rates of suicide. The only causation indicator for suicide rates is mental health. Anything that upsets mental health causes increases in suicides all around the world. A 1% increase in unemployment has a direct link for example to an increase of 5000-10000 deaths of despair (amount depends on the study) which include suicides and domestic violence. This is because unemployment has a direct link to mental health. Mental health issues are a causational link to all suicides. People mentally healthy do not commit suicides. Gun ownership has no affect what so ever on mental health. It doesn't even pass the sniff test. The horrible studies using Massachusetts or Connecticut reduced suicide rates after they enacted stricter gun laws doesn't take into account other factors like they were already on a downward trend from years prior to suicide rates as well an upward trend for reduced unemployment. Anyone arguing such an absurd idea needs to be mocked and ridiculed.
Now, if you want to argue that guns are more likely to make suicides more effective... that may have a point but not really. How many overdoses have we had during the opioid epidemic compared to deaths from firearms? Far more deaths and those can be argued to be more or less suicides as no one is forcing those people onto pills to overdose and most know that taking them will lead to their deaths. It is a slow suicide but still a suicide.
Also, Asian countries, which have the highest restrictions on gun ownership also have the highest rate of suicides globally.
As the largest continent in the World, Asia accounts for about 60% of World suicides. Preventing suicide by restricting access to suicide methods is one of the few evidence-based suicide prevention strategies. However, there has been a lack of systematic ...
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The vast majority of those deaths are from hanging and poisoning with a very high effective rate. Boiling down a crap ton of spinach and drinking the result is basically 100% mortality rate where guns in suicides in America are only an 85% effective mortality rate. That doesn't mean guns aren't effective, they just aren't the most effective method. Asian countries account for more than 60% of the global suicide rates annually, and account for around 35% of the worlds population. They also have the least amount of gun ownership among civilians.
As for the bridges remark I made earlier. Bridges have far less utility than guns. Bridges are not required in a society. There are other ways to get around including going a long way around. Humans can do without bridges just fine, it would just be an inconvenience. Guns on the other had have a ton of utility. First off, they keep the American government and foreign powers in check. They are effective at self defense. Effective at hunting. People use guns for recreation to improve mental health (which would incidentally decrease suicide rates). Bridges are just one method out of many to allow for the transfer of people or good across an area. Meaning if one wants to blame an object as a means of reducing suicides in a country, one would do better blaming bridges than blaming guns.