From FOAA
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No amount of regulation will ever prevent a person, firearm owner or not, from committing suicide if that is what that person has determined to do
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Indeed, and Australia proved this. Here in the US we have gun lobby "researchers" disingenuously using the raw Australian suicide stats, when in fact numerous peer reviewed studies, in fact ever single study that look at it, found Australia introduced an amplification of suicide undercount, though misclassification as accident, of non firearms suicide exactly at that point.
Australia's ABS says it is invalid to use the numbers to establish trends because of this, but US and Australia's pro-gun control researchers do exactly that.
It is guns that are a key pivot point on that suicide undercount for a known reason. Gun suicide is estimated to be in the range of 95% to 99% properly recorded as suicide because of assumptions made by medical examiners.
Virtually no gun suicides are misclassified as "accidental self caused death" or "undetermined."
Self-caused death ruled "accidental" from overdose, poisoning, falls, several kinds of drowning, driving into static objects, etc are established in the peer reviewed literature worldwide, and in Australia, to contain 30% to 50% suicides that result in large suicide undercounts.
And where would you see the undercount be amplified the most showing a
false decline in suicide :With a sharp decrease in access to guns.
Australia's "accidental death" that was "self caused accidental death" in fact rose right at the point where the confiscation occurred.
Moreover, Australia's gun control was actually harmful to the ends of reducing suicide, since was asserted to be successful when it was not, distracting from actual private and public health polices that might actually help.