manboobz:

Could gun control drastically cut male suicide rates? Men’s Rights activists like to remind people that men commit suicide far more often than women. But that’s not because men are many times more miserable than women. In fact, women are far more likely to attempt suicide than men. They simply don’t succeed at it as often as men do. The reason for this is simple: men tend to choose more lethal methods of suicide than women. And that often means… View On WordPress

In the UK suicide claims 19/100,000 male lives and 5.1/100,000 female lives. Despite gun control, men still commit suicide at higher rates than women, almost 4:1.

Hanging/strangling/suffocation are the most used methods, 56% of males use it compared to 40% of females. A whopping 16% difference in most used methods does not account for a 19:5 difference in fatalities.

Australia saw a decrease in suicides by firearm? Let’s not mention the 90′s suicide prevention programs having an effect on that, or that the decrease was already happening before the gun buyback.

Or that in Australia, males kill themselves more often too, independently of age group:

Let’s also not mention that in some areas of Australia, gun ownership actually rose after the buyback. [1] [2] (recent stories)



The latest figures show a renaissance in firearm ownership in the state - a 25 per cent increase in three years - http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/gun-laws-fall-short-in-war-on-crime/2005/10/28/1130400366681.html (2005 - Older news piece evidences rising gun ownership even 10 years ago)

So yeah, it’s a nice theory, but it’s just not backed up by reality. Men kill themselves at higher rates even when there are no guns, so don’t bring guns into your discussion.

