If you assume people won’t find another way to kill themselves, and IF you consider suicide to be just as bad, and if you assume gun-related deaths is actually the right metric to judge as to whether or not you want gun control.
If you assume people won’t find another way to kill themselves
I’ve seen something about this that Google showed me is discussed here. It works out that one in three people who would have killed themselves with gas found another method, and the other two thirds just didn’t bother. Ideally I’d find some other statistics along this line, but since I’m lazy and I don’t actually care all that much about this issue, I’ll just go with that. Accounting for this, and not accounting for people find another way to kill others, there’s still a little more suicides caused by guns than homicides.
If you assume people won’t find another way to kill themselves, and IF you consider suicide to be just as bad, and if you assume gun-related deaths is actually the right metric to judge as to whether or not you want gun control.
I’ve seen something about this that Google showed me is discussed here. It works out that one in three people who would have killed themselves with gas found another method, and the other two thirds just didn’t bother. Ideally I’d find some other statistics along this line, but since I’m lazy and I don’t actually care all that much about this issue, I’ll just go with that. Accounting for this, and not accounting for people find another way to kill others, there’s still a little more suicides caused by guns than homicides.