I don't know what you're responding to.............?
My 2nd ex husband and an ex BF are bipolar/ with psychotic tendencies. Both have attempted suicide in various ways.
I've had PTSD, Chronic Depression and anxiety since I was 29 (I am 57 now) and have taken meds since those diagnoses. I have VOLUNTARILY hospitalized myself twice because of suicidal ideologies. I was frightened to take a shower with shavers sitting next to the tub. I didn't want to die, and I still don't. The last time was in 1995.
If a person really wants to die, THEY WILL accomplish that. It may be a fleeting thought or a long, planned event. OVERWHELMING HOPELESSNESS, TERMINAL ILLNESS, PERSONAL LOSS. Sometimes it will change with intervention, sometimes it won't.
My opinion: Suicide isn't a gun control issue, it's a family, education, medication, and mental health issue.
IF a person is "titled out" (involuntarily hospitalized) for being a threat to themselves or others, then it's a gun issue, and they SHOULD be a prohibited possessor.
I could literally write a book about suicide with the experiences I've been through with significant others, friends and family...................suicide is complex and one size doesn't fit all. There's no way you could eliminate the uncountable objects one can use to terminate their own life.
I can relate to your experience. I also have PTSD and have been suicidal, and hospitalized myself.
Youre right. Suicide is a very complex issue with many influences and, usually, coexisting issues.
Sometimes its an overwhelming impulse, too. Which is why I will never, ever own a gun. Thats my choice. If I owned one, I wholly believe I would be dead by now, by my own hand.
Gun owners with guns in their homes are statistically twice as likely to complete suicide than are non gun owners. More than half of completed suicides are by firearm, over suffocation (including hanging), overdose (poisoning), etc.
Restricting guns from the clinically suicidal could and would save lives, imo.
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Info from the Brady Center (downloadable pdf)
https://www.bradycampaign.org/sites/default/files/TruthAboutSuicideGuns.pdf
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Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the US for people 15-35. Nearly two-thirds of those are by gun. (2015 story)
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/upshot/gun-deaths-are-mostly-suicides.html
Public health researchers cite two reasons guns are particularly dangerous: 1) Guns are more lethal than most other methods people try, so someone who attempts suicide another way is more likely to survive; 2) Studies suggest that suicide attempts often occur shortly after people decide to kill themselves, so people with deadly means at hand when the impulse strikes are more likely to use them than those who have to wait or plan.
That means that strategies that make suicide more inconvenient or difficult can save lives. Guns, when they are in the home, can make self-harm both easy and deadly.
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Kris Brown, co-president at the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence about a new report regarding victims of gun violence in America: (Sept. 2017)
https://www.npr.org/2017/09/30/5547...cides-are-even-more-common-than-gun-homicides
The reality that I have learned is that suicide is a rash act, and it's one that the vast majority of people who attempt it who don't succeed the first time actually never go on to commit again.
That's why the introduction of guns is such a dangerous factor because very sadly and as you know 90 percent of the time an individual who attempts suicide by a gun is successful.
