@EpektasisJohn Yes, but the point is to reduce the total suicide rate. It doesn't help if someone simply switches to another method that kills them. Gary Kleck used to think access reduction might reduce suicide, but he recently did a review/study that fou
Those sound cross-sectional studies are supported by a natural quasi-experiment of mass Australian gun control, by a lack of a raw correlation across culturally similar English-speaking nations and from data on the relative lethality of e.g. hanging. http
@FeministPhilos @Asterix8912 Once you avoid correlation/causation fallacies like that, there is zero net effect of gun ownership levels on suicide, largely because hanging and carbon monoxide poisoning are as effective, bridge jumping is more and gun suici
@sleepovercutie The virgin peer-reviewed, academic research collecting empirical evidence and controlling for confounds and then published in reputable journals vs the chad “it strikes me” that X from unqualified Twitter randos. https://t.co/n3r1vqo95s