A county-level analysis
Perhaps I overlooked it…but are we referring to legal gun ‘ownership’? It may or may not be relevant
Question is: Are any firearms now kept in or around your home?. So that includes illegal ones, if people answer that way. Who knows, survey data has issues with people who lie.
Are you using the firearms suicide rate or overall suicide rate ?
Also when you do other countries do you include doctor assisted suicide ? In Canada for example
Their suicide rate is much higher when it’s included.
Firearm suicide % of all suicides. Higher value = more guns. That's the standard proxy.
I didn't use any other countries here, just internal US data.
Perhaps I overlooked it…but are we referring to legal gun ‘ownership’? It may or may not be relevant
Question is: Are any firearms now kept in or around your home?. So that includes illegal ones, if people answer that way. Who knows, survey data has issues with people who lie.
Are you using the firearms suicide rate or overall suicide rate ?
Also when you do other countries do you include doctor assisted suicide ? In Canada for example
Their suicide rate is much higher when it’s included.
Firearm suicide % of all suicides. Higher value = more guns. That's the standard proxy.
I didn't use any other countries here, just internal US data.