Skip this tweet: Majority of "gun violence" deaths are suicide. It's gratuitous number-padding, to make thinking coherently harder.
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@LucyStag It's not clear to me that access to firearms has a lot of marginal effect, but I haven't looked at the literature in a long time. -
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@presidentjlh@LucyStag Yes, which is interesting bc all other violent crime is way way down. -
@presidentjlh@LucyStag National suicide rates are all over the map, no apparent relation to firearm access AFAIK. -
@presidentjlh@LucyStag IIRC rates are highest in states like Montana and Alaska, with easy gun access... -
@presidentjlh@LucyStag ...but also tons of isolated, unmarried men, low winter light levels, etc. -
@St_Rev@presidentjlh Isn't suicide high in Finland, etc? You have to wonder about sunlight. -
@LucyStag@presidentjlh Yeah. Tons we don't know but there's definitely a latitude effect. -
@St_Rev@LucyStag@presidentjlh Per capita rankings by nation, by sex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate … - 3 more replies
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@St_Rev There's something to that. In some ways, men are very expendable and that needs to be addressed. -
@LucyStag@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing's Every Cradle Is A Grave provides useful insight on suicide stats, methods, ethics.
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