claim: if an individual is determined "to commit suicide, the availability of a gun is not a factor" because they will find a way.
author: michael chippendale
evidence_1: though guns are not the most common method by which people attempt ...  suicidal individuals who take pills or inhale car exhaust or use razors have time  ... private guns, public health, found that rates of firearm suicides in states with  .... as miller puts it, “if you save a life in the short run, you likely save a life in the  long run.
evidence_2: jul 13, 2016 ... although mass shootings get most of the attention, experts say that the ... that's  not only more than the number of americans who were killed in ... the wide  availability of guns in america matters for suicide because ... experts contend if  you reduce a suicidal person's access to firearms, it's likely to save his ...
evidence_3: every study that has examined the issue to date has found that within the u.s., ...  compared individuals who died by suicide with those who did not and found  those ... those who died by suicide were twice as likely to have a gun at home  than ... at higher risk for suicide if they lived in a state with high firearm  prevalence.
evidence_4: for this reason, there is no single profile that can reliably predict who will use a  gun ... of individual, family, school, peer, community, and sociocultural risk factors  that ... what works: gun violence prediction and prevention at the individual  level ... for those persons at risk for violence due to mental illness, suicidal  thoughts, ...
evidence_5: why do some youths get caught up in violence while others do not? ... a risk  factor is anything that increases the probability that a person will suffer harm. ...  protective factors and determining when in the course of development they  emerge. .... may not be identified in this report because of the way risk factors are  defined.