No, Guns Have Nothing To Do With Suicides

By Tom Knighton

Gun grabbers will try anything to justify their determination to ignore our God-given right to keep and bear arms. One of the more idiotic tactics they employ is to count the number of suicides committed with a firearm as data regarding the innate danger presented by a relatively simple tool.

Recently, a study out of Maryland purported to show just how dangerous guns were with regard to suicide. Unfortunately, as Dean Weingarten at Gun Watch notes, they kind of shoot themselves in the foot (pun fully intended):

Their studies about suicides “caused” by firearms ownership, tend to be junk science. Consider a recent “study” published only with the American Public Health Association. It was done about suicides in Maryland. Maryland is densely populated, and has extremely strict gun control. Only 3.5% of the suicides were in rural areas. The numbers are likely correct, but the interpretation leaves much to be desired. From reuters.com:

In particular, doctors need to pay close attention to gun use and mental health for men, the study results suggest.

That’s because 89 percent of the gun-related suicides occurred among men, and because the higher rural suicide rate was only true for men.

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Source:: Bearing Arms