Gun Control & RKBA

Look at all the data. If Japanese people had access to guns like Americans their suicide rate would shoot up.

Time and time again experts in suicide say removing guns will greatly lower the number of suicides. You can choose to ignore that data but it's you ignoring it, not the data being wrong.

Suicide is often impulsive. Guns make it almost a certainty. Poison is frequently survived as is wrist slitting. People that survive almost never try again.

A common location to kill yourself in Japan is in a forest near Mt Fuji:

"Police records show that, in 2010, there were 247 suicide attempts (54 of which were fatal) in the forest'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan

If everyone of those people had used a gun you'd be look at 5x more suicides in that one location. You can PRETEND that isn't true but only gun nuts believe it's not. Even STRIPES magazine says access to guns greatly increases suicides. The Israeli military said the same thing and greatly reduced troop suicides by preventing troops from bringing home their weapons.

The data is extensive and incontrovertible... Unless you value your toys more than 15000 US lives a year... Then it's nothing but another thing to have to ignore so you can sleep.