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Originally Posted by GGG

The first place to start is mental health and suciide prevention. That is 2/3rds of gun deaths. The you have roughly 1/3 being homocides and then you have a smaller amount of police, mass shooting, terrorism etc and a small amount of accidents.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...-gun-violence/

Access to firearms increases suicide rates regardless of access to mental health resources or suicide prevention efforts.

https://hub.jhu.edu/2017/08/17/high-...l-communities/

According to new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in rural areas of Maryland, suicide rates are 35 percent higher than in urban settings—a disparity that can be attributed to greater use of firearms in rural settings.
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"The reason that rural suicide rates are higher is because people in these areas are killing themselves with guns," Nestadt says.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/ma...s-and-suicide/

A study by the Harvard School of Public Health of all 50 U.S. states reveals a powerful link between rates of firearm ownership and suicides. ... in states where guns were prevalent—as in Wyoming, where 63 percent of households reported owning guns—rates of suicide were higher. The inverse was also true: where gun ownership was less common, suicide rates were also lower.

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/01/11...icide-homicide

Someone with access to firearms is three times more likely to commit suicide and nearly twice as likely to be the victim of a homicide as someone who does not have access ... Researchers found striking gender differences in the data. When firearms were accessible, men were nearly four times more likely to commit suicide than when firearms were not accessible, while women were almost three times more likely to be victims of homicide.

http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi...PH.2015.302753

Using previous research, we examined the impact of 4 handgun laws (waiting periods, universal background checks, gun locks, and open carrying regulations) on suicide rates. ... Each law was associated with significantly lower firearm suicide rates and the proportion of suicides resulting from firearms. Follow-up analyses showed a significant indirect effect on overall suicide rates through the proportion of suicides by firearms