It won’t even save 30k a year, the mass majority of our deaths via guns are suicides. Removing that avenue is not going to magically make someone less suicidal.
I believe guns increase the likelihood of suicide. There was a study on this, and lately firearm instructors have been conveying(in Utah at least) that removing guns from your home if suicidal is crucial. And to watch for signs of depression in other gun owners.
But I agree with your overall point. Removing the guns won’t eliminate those suicide deaths, only reduce them.
And more to my point, if RFK is in power when bird flu achieves human to human transmission, gun deaths will be background noise.
The issue with that logic is correlation doesn’t equal causation…you just need to look at japan. The country with pretty much the hardest gun control, has one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
That’s not how correlation works at all. By that same logic you’re stating that without guns here, then all of our suicides by firearms wouldn’t happen at all, and people wouldn’t try something else.
It won’t even save 30k a year, the mass majority of our deaths via guns are suicides. Removing that avenue is not going to magically make someone less suicidal.
I believe guns increase the likelihood of suicide. There was a study on this, and lately firearm instructors have been conveying(in Utah at least) that removing guns from your home if suicidal is crucial. And to watch for signs of depression in other gun owners.
But I agree with your overall point. Removing the guns won’t eliminate those suicide deaths, only reduce them.
And more to my point, if RFK is in power when bird flu achieves human to human transmission, gun deaths will be background noise.
Even small barriers to a quick death can dramatically reduce suicide rates. Blister packs replacing bottles of pills reduced overdose suicides by 22‰.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC526120/
The issue with that logic is correlation doesn’t equal causation…you just need to look at japan. The country with pretty much the hardest gun control, has one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
The point you’re missing is if Japan had lax gun laws they would have more suicides. Not sure if you’re slow to catch on or just obstinate.
That’s not how correlation works at all. By that same logic you’re stating that without guns here, then all of our suicides by firearms wouldn’t happen at all, and people wouldn’t try something else.