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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

That's kinda been the common sense known, with the argument "violent people will be violent, with or without guns." It's simply not true. The ease to use/effectiveness ratio of guns means it allows crimes/moments of passion to result in violence very easily. The impersonal nature due to not having to be in close proximity of your target allows dissociation, too.

Compared trying to stab someone to death, and it's basically night and day. It's personal. It's messy. It's exhausting. It's very involved. And it's risky. This is why "mass stabbings", or murder by this method in general, is quite rare, even in countries or regions where access to guns make knives the next best option.

All that applies to suicide, too - momentary dark thoughts and easily translate into death with guns.

Think drugs and drinking are more common suicides than people think. Without a note it probably gets listed as accidental overdoses

On the guns I'd fear gun culture is so engraved the black market would be booming or rednecks would start making their own which would probably prove more dangerous