I hate belaboring the point but suicide is a human function. It is not partisan and I don't know who said it had anything to do with gun laws (it wasn't me). Since it is a human function then two countries with similar values, similar cultures, and similar life styles should have very similar suicide stats...unless there is a difference. That's my point! The US and Canada have very different suicide rates so there has to be an underlying difference in the two countries. .
Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
You do know your lies can be fact checked? Please tell me the huge difference in suicide rates in each country. There is a huge difference on how they kill themselves as many more are by handgun here in the States.
Here, we find that on whole, both trends we observed in the earlier chart appear to hold. We also observe that both the United States and Canada sees a similar rate of suicides each year, with Canada averaging 11.5 suicides per 100,000 people and the U.S. averaging just a bit lower at 11.0 suicides per 100,000 people in the years from 2000 through 2007.
So on the whole then, the U.S. and Canada would appear to be very similar to one another where deaths caused by self-inflicted injuries are concerned. If Canada's population were identical to the United States, it would likely see the same number of suicides each year, or actually a bit more than that, given its slightly higher suicide rate.
Things change dramatically however when we consider the methods by which people in the U.S. and Canada have committed suicide in the years from 2000 through 2007.
Originally Posted by WTF
