

This is perhaps most concrete when looking not at rates or regression results but at raw numbers. The study found that males and females and people of all age groups were at higher risk for suicide if they lived in a state with high firearm prevalence. The higher suicide rates result from higher firearm suicides the non-firearm suicide rate is about equal across states.įor example, one study ( Miller 2007) used survey-based measures of state household firearm ownership (from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System) while controlling for state-level measures of mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse, and other factors associated with suicide.

Those who died by suicide were twice as likely to have a gun at home than either of the other two groups:Ī later psychological autopsy study ( Brent 1999) compared 140 adolescent suicide decedents with 131 demographically similar community controls.

case control studies have compared individuals who died by suicide with those who did not and found those dying by suicide were more likely to live in homes with guns.įor example, Brent and colleagues studied three groups of adolescents: 47 suicide decedents, 47 inpatient attempters, and 47 psychiatric inpatients who had never attempted suicide.

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