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Originally Posted by Riverman
There is no debate here.
Of course there will be more suicide by firearm in countries with a larger number of firearms.
And yet in your graph, with good ol Japan and South Korea wayyy to the right and such little bars...well South Korea is the NUMBER TWO country for suicide by capita in the world! Japan is 17th!
Twice as many people kill themselves in Japan than in Switzerland. Three times as many people kill themselves in South Korea than in Switzerland.
And what about homicide? Well Japan does better than the Swiss (.5) at .3 /100k, but it looks like South Korea, not so much at .7 / 100k.
Why are both the suicide and the homicide rates worse in South Korea than in Switzerland, when Switzerland is full of guns and SK is devoid of them? I mean there is literally 40 times as many guns in Switzerland than SK, where there is pretty much no private firearm ownership.