I did a fair amount of trauma surgery before I subspecialized, and I'm not impressed. More gun deaths are due to suicides than homicides, and suicides have little or nothing to do with criminals but do have a lot to do with ready gun access making suicide attempts more lethal. 1/ https://t.co/hk9oJ9ZToC
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The overwhelming majority of suicide attempts fail unless they use a gun because suicidal people tend to be very stressed and acting on instinct. You really can reduce the overall suicide rate by putting up minor obstacles to successful suicides, e.g. fences around bridges.
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When gun control was introduced in Australia this was an unexpected outcome - suicide rate dropped. Unsurprisingly it is now our farmers who have the highest completion rate using guns (good access to guns and inadequate access to mental health support)
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