Gun Control & RKBA

I could beak it all down for you, but instead you should go read this stuff:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/

In a nutshell though, multiple studies have found this:

'"You can reduce the rate of suicide in the United States substantially, without attending to underlying mental health problems, if fewer people had guns in their homes and fewer people who are at risk for suicide had access to guns in their home,” said Dr. Matthew Miller, a director of Harvard Injury Control Research Center and a professor of health sciences and epidemiology at Northeastern University.'

And:

"About 90 percent of the people who try suicide and live ultimately never die by suicide. If the people who died had not had easy access to lethal means, researchers like Dr. Miller reason, most would still be alive."

And, a study asked this question:

"How much time passed between the time you decided to complete suicide and when you actually attempted suicide?” (Simon 2001)"

And this is what they discovered:

"24% said less than five minutes
Another 47% said an hour or less"

In other words 71% of people try to kill themselves within an hour of deciding. IF they have a gun they have 86% chance of success... If they try and poison themselves - the third most common method - only 2% succeed. And 90% of people that fail don't go on to kill themselves in the future.

A summary of the data:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/health/blocking-the-paths-to-suicide.html?_r=0


A real world example:

"In 2006, after years of suicides among young men in the Israel Defense Forces, authorities forbade the troops from bringing their rifles home on weekends. Suicides dropped by 40 percent, according to a 2010 study by psychiatrists with the IDF and the Sheba Medical Center.

Those attempting suicide for the most part act on impulse, often after surprisingly brief periods of deliberation. But the impulse also passes."

http://www.stripes.com/news/experts-restricting-troops-access-to-firearms-is-necessary-to-reduce-rate-of-suicides-1.199216

And that's from Stripes - hardly a liberal anti-gun rag.