The New York Times (10/9, Sanger-Katz, Subscription Publication) reports in “The Upshot” that “more than 60 percent of people” in the US “who die from guns die by suicide.” Experts in public health “cite two reasons” why “guns are particularly dangerous.” First, firearms “are more lethal than most other methods people try,” and second, “suicide attempts often occur shortly after people decide to kill themselves, so people with deadly means at hand when the impulse strikes are more likely to use them than those who have to wait or plan.” Having a gun in the home “can make self-harm both easy and deadly.”
Related Links:
— “Gun Deaths Are Mostly Suicides,” Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times, October 8, 2015.