Problem konsekwencji powszechnego dostępu do broni palnej w USA był już wielokrotnie debatowany na łamach tego forum. Jednakże uwaga dyskutujących koncentrowała się na zabójstwach popełnianych przy użyciu owej broni, szczególnie tzw. "mass shootings". Tymczasem jest inna, rónie ciemna, strona posiadania przez Amerykanów ogromnej ilości broni. W USA co roku ok. 45 tysięcy ludzi popełnia samobójstwo. Większość z nich przy użyciu broni palnej. 85 % podejmujących próbę samobójstwa w taki właśnie sposób - robi to skutecznie. 95 % tych, którzy podejmują próbę samobójczą przy zastosowaniu innego środka/metody - przeżywa. 90 % z tych, którzy przeżyli próbę samobójczą - nie podejmuje ponownych prób.
Statystyki jak wyżej nie wymagają komentarza. Zainteresowanych problemem - odsyłam do podlinkowanego materiału.

"Suicide rates in the US have risen dramatically over the past two decades, stubbornly defying prevention efforts and morphing into a nationwide public health crisis. Brayden was one of nearly 45,000 Americans who killed themselves in 2016. Even at a conservative estimate, that was twice the number of homicides that year. According to data published last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the national suicide rate rose 35% between 1999 and 2018, increasing in all states. In Montana, where Brayden lived, it rose 38% in two decades and people killed themselves at a rate that surpassed any other state in America.
And the increases are most acute in America's adolescent population, outstripping all other age groups. According to the CDC, the rate of teenagers and young adults taking their lives rose 47% in two decades.Most people who kill themselves in the US use a gun. Suicide is the silent epidemic of America's problem with firearms — it accounts for roughly two-thirds of all gun deaths, while the national conversation around gun control is dominated by mass shootings, which account for less than 1%. In 2018, on average, 67 people died by firearm suicide every day, a figure that has risen every single year since 2006.
Part of the problem with guns is that they are by far the most fatal means. There are three statistics which together paint a stark picture of the role of firearms in American suicides: about 85% of people who use a gun will die; about 95% of people who use another means will survive; and about 90% of those who survive will not go on to try again.
"Too many people think that if you want to take your own life you will, and the means don't matter. But a gun in the home increases the chance of suicide probably threefold," said David Hemenway, the director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center (HICRC) and one of the country's leading suicide researchers."
www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50292935