If you take any training at all in suicide prevention, they will tell you that people attempting suicide are pretty carefully about selecting method and circumstances (likelihood of being discovered, etc.) based on how conflicted they are concerning the attempt. Guns are very final, everyone knows that, and everyone who chooses to use a gun for a suicide attempt has no intention of being stopped.
Japan and Russia have lots of gun control and much higher suicide rates than we have. there are lots of very definite very irreversible strategies to commit suicide without access to a gun.
Citizen disarmament proponents always want to reference suicide rates. They are always included in “gun deaths”. But it’s just a matter of availability, people use what they have if you banned tall buildings, hibachis or commuter trains, fewer of these would be used in suicides too, but that doesn’t make it a good idea.
LOL, God forbid anyone actually discuss this rationally and intelligently.
It amazes and disturbs me to observe the way liberals discuss issues.