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@bswud Take a look at the global pattern of suicide vs gun ownership before you get too sure about your mechanismpic.twitter.com/lVMlYcixLw
Hard argument to make. Maybe they just switch to other suicide methods. Dying isn't exactly difficult.
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Finland has old EU15 highest murder rate, one of strictest gun laws. Murder weapon: knives and fists.
@JayMan471@bswud -
murder weapon of choice and suicide methods seems to me to be fungible.
@JayMan471@bswud -
right, the evidence base shows that gun availability causes male, but not female, suicide
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Suicides: Finland, men 22.2, women 7.5. USA men 19.4, women 5.2 (per 100.000/year) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate …
@KirkegaardEmil@JayMan471 -
ah, so you're saying that Finns are in every other respect identical to Americans? Surprising
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no, but I'm saying that choice of suicide method is probably fungible. Finland has harsh gun laws.
@KirkegaardEmil@JayMan471 -
that's very poor evidence. Finns are different. And live in place with no dark for months
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you want to at least try and control for ethnicity. Better evidence does
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