https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_vi..._United_StatesI really was not focusing on the suicide part but rather on the homicide part, but since you brought it up. NEVER have I supported outlawing guns. NEVER. Suicide, whether by gun or some other way, is a major problem in the U.S. However, homicides and suicides are to me totally different issues -- homicides are one person killing another and suicide is a person killing himself/herself.
really? don't think so speedbump.
11,208 deaths by homicide (3.5 per 100,000)
21,175 by suicide with a firearm
so .. outlaw guns and no one commits suicide? right! idiot. they'll just OD on prescription drugs or {forbidden ones}. or hang themselves. so let's outlaw rope and belts. that's how Robin Williams committed suicide. no belts, no suicide! gotdam you are dumber than a stump boy. Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
Studies have shown that when guns are present in the home, the rates of suicide are higher.
Source: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/ma...s-and-suicide/
"A study by the Harvard School of Public Health of all 50 U.S. states reveals a powerful link between rates of firearm ownership and suicides. Based on a survey of American households conducted in 2002, HSPH Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management Matthew Miller, Research Associate Deborah Azrael, and colleagues at the School’s Injury Control Research Center (ICRC), found that in states where guns were prevalent—as in Wyoming, where 63 percent of households reported owning guns—rates of suicide were higher. The inverse was also true: where gun ownership was less common, suicide rates were also lower.
The lesson? Many lives would likely be saved if people disposed of their firearms, kept them locked away, or stored them outside the home."
Also, many studies have shown that people who have guns in their homes are also more in danger of being a victim of homicide;
Source: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/160/10/929.full
"Our findings also suggest that the presence of a gun in the home increases the chance that a homicide or suicide in the home will be committed with a firearm rather than by using other means. For victims of homicide, there was also a strong association between guns in the home and risk of dying from a firearm-related homicide, but this risk varied by age and whether the person was living with others at the time of death."
Another interesting finding from the study:
"Over three quarters (76.3 percent) of the homicide victims knew their assailant. Nearly one third (31.7 percent) of the homicides occurred during a family argument, 15.4 percent during a robbery, 4.1 percent during a drug deal, 0.2 percent during an abduction, and 44.1 percent for other unspecified reasons. In 4.5 percent of the homicides, multiple circumstances were reported."
So, according to the study, if you are a homicide victim in your home, it is very likely you will know the person who killed you and it is twice as likely that someone else who lives in the home will shoot you than someone coming into the home.
And if you choose to not believe that study:
Source: https://www.thetrace.org/2015/06/new...violent-crime/
“Our findings refute the argument that gun ownership deters strangers from committing homicide,” Dr. Siegel explained. “Instead, these findings suggest that gun ownership actually increases the risk of violent death.”
And if you choose to not believe either of those studies:
Source: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/f...uns-and-death/
"Using survey data on rates of household gun ownership, we examined the association between gun availability and homicide across states, 2001-2003. We found that states with higher levels of household gun ownership had higher rates of firearm homicide and overall homicide. This relationship held for both genders and all age groups, after accounting for rates of aggravated assault, robbery, unemployment, urbanization, alcohol consumption, and resource deprivation (e.g., poverty). There was no association between gun prevalence and non-firearm homicide."
I can cite many more studies but they all reach the same conclusion. I'm sure that you will continue to believe what you want to believe and think that your opinion outweighs all contrary evidence, and I really don't care if you continue to do so. For me, this all validates my decision to not have a gun in the home.
