Suicides Involving Firearms
Some research has shown an association between household firearm ownership and gun suicide rates, while other research has indicated the association is not statistically significant. During the 1980s and early 1990s, there was a strong upward trend in adolescent suicides with guns, as well as a sharp overall increase in suicides among those age 75 and over. In the United States, firearms remain the most common method of suicide, accounting for 50.7% of all suicides committed in 2006.
No association vis-à-vis safe-storage laws of guns that are owned, and gun suicide rates have been found. Studies that attempt to link gun ownership to likely victimology often fail to account for the presence of guns owned by other people. Safe-storage laws do not appear to affect gun suicide rates or juvenile accidental gun death.
Read more about this topic: Gun Violence In The United States
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“Most suicides are committed with a knife and fork.”
—Swedish proverb, trans. by Verne Moberg.
“What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in decision-making. . . . Involving the adolescent in decisions doesn’t mean that you are giving up your authority. It means acknowledging that the teenager is growing up and has the right to participate in decisions that affect his or her life.”
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