"No good data on national rates of gun ownership exist (partly - TopicsExpress



          

"No good data on national rates of gun ownership exist (partly because of the NRA’s stranglehold on Congress), so the authors used the percentage of suicides that involve a firearm (FS/S) as a proxy. The theory, backed up by a wealth of data, is that the more guns there are any in any one place, the higher the percentage of people who commit suicide with guns as opposed to other mechanisms will be."
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:21:06 +0000

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