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Countries with strict gun control laws have higher rates of suicide than those without.

WOULD BANNING FIREARMS REDUCE MURDER AND SUICIDE?, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Volume 30, Number 2, Spring 2007 (pp. 649-694)

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Countries with strict gun control laws have higher rates of suicide than those without.

Interesting. Any analysis on why that is?

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Countries with strict gun control laws have higher rates of suicide than those without.

Given that the former Soviet countries tend to have the highest suicide rates and the strictest gun restrictions you might think so. The study, though, concludes that there's no hard correlation or relationship.