What Researchers Learned About Gun Violence Before Congress Killed Funding

[gejohnston]

49. have a study for that?

I bet it doesn't say what you think it says.

People who try it with other means are either saved, or don't do enough of it and they survive, and often don't try it again. Guns are also very easy, many people who get suicidal can't go through with it due to the effort, but with a gun it's one click and you're done.

only if they use pills and call the hotline. That is the key difference. People who shoot or hang themselves are serious and do not wish to be saved. There are a number of ways of doing yourself in without much effort.
hanging is the most common in the world. Jumping in front of on coming trains are "popular" in Japan and South Korea (second and first in suicide respectively.) SIGSW makes up the plurality or majority in US, Swiss, Finnish suicides.

designed to harm, and have no other use

strange, most of them are used in a harmless manner. Went to the range all the lanes were occupied with people firing tens of thousands of rounds with no one harmed.

Guns are also very easy, many people who get suicidal can't go through with it due to the effort, but with a gun it's one click and you're done.

I don't know about that. A friend of my brother's in high school could have used one of several guns, but chose to drink battery acid instead. Perhaps he didn't want to leave a mess for his mom. Maybe some other reason. I suspect the line between science and pseudoscience becomes blurry at times.