Gun Rights Increase Suicides

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8. There are 2 options here

One is that you are deliberately misinterpreting this to further some agenda you find attractive ... the other is that you lack reading comprehension skills.

The article points out the well attested statistics that in "gun rights" states there is an increase in successful suicides (and in total suicide attempts both successful an unsuccessful). The reason for this is well understood, guns make suicide seem easy and pretty painless; they also can be used on impulse.

Look at the alternatives:
Knives can be used on impulse but there is a lot of pain, mess and a lot of error;
Drugs are hit or miss or successful failure, the last being you hang on for weeks whilst your body fails from the effects (Paracetamol is horrendous in this respect);
Hanging takes planning and some time to effect successfully, add in the well known flying head effect from a long drop and it is messy too;
Car crashes are probably more common method than is known from the statistics because it is, probably, the ultimate impulse method (other than guns) and pretty survivable given modern car safety measures;
CO poisoning, possible but takes a fair amount of planning and equipment;
Jumping from cliffs/bridges needs a suitable cliff or bridge, a plan to be able to get there and an attractive venue - see the "popularity" of the Golden Gate bridge, The Menai Gorge bridge and Beachy Head.