Guns increase suicide rate

byZ H

In the United States, the number of suicides in 2016 has increased by 30% compared with 1999. There are various reasons to commit suicide, but as a method used at the time of suicide "overwhelmingly using firearms" is overwhelmingly many, data showing that the gun increases suicide rate It is shown.

To Reduce Suicide in the U.S., Regulate Guns - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-07/guns-are-a-factor-in-rising-u-s-suicide-rate

American Disease Control Center(CDC) is conducting a survey to lower the suicide rate which is rising rapidly in the United States. The latest CDC releasedreportAccording to the factors influencing suicide, various "pressures" such as human relations, work problems, money troubles, housing problems, etc. are cited. It is suggested that the various stresses encountered in living a modern society may lead to the risk of depriving people of their lives.

And in the report some strategies to prevent suicide are also presented. Employers, schools and communities can help people suffering suicide by promoting employment, working on lack of housing, and allowing medical staff to provide treatment online or over the phone, And it is written in the report. It is proposed that you can save people who are suffering from everyday life as they try to commit suicide.

byFred Mouniguet

Bloomberg, an international media for CDC's suggestion of suicide prevention in the report, says, "There are other strategies to prevent suicide, but CDC ignores it." Suicide can be thought separately in terms of the motive "Why try to commit suicide" and means of "How to commit suicide"? In America there are the most suicides using firearms, so suicide by keeping the part of the means suicide Bloomberg asserts that it can prevent it.

It is clear that 41% of suicides of people whose mental health states are known use firearms and it is clear that 55% of suicides of those who are unknown are those using firearms . Because suicide is a very impulsive act, you can give people the opportunity to reconsider suicide if you do not have a gun-like weapon at hand,surviveYou can do that.

The graph below shows households' ownership of firearms (horizontal axis) by state in the United States and the rate of using firearms by suicide (vertical axis). Hawaii and others with low firearms holding rates show that the rate at which firearms are used in suicide is considerably lower than in Wyoming State with a high holding rate.


In Connecticut State of the States and Indiana State in the United States, the law is applied that allows police to confiscate firearms from "residents who may use firearms to expose others or theirs", and this law is enforced It is said that suicide rates using firearms have decreased greatly fromSurvey dataThere is also.

Approximately 45,000 people committed suicide in the United States in 2016, and since 1999 the rate of suicide has increased by 30%. Bloomberg wrote that national and local communities are forced to take various preventive measures in order to prevent suicide, but it is possible to ease suicide by restricting firearm access of high-risk people .