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Sanity Claws

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17. Your comment is very important

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 09:16 AM

Dec 2012

New York City is hardly the easiest place in the country to live yet its suicide rate is only about one-half of the country's as a whole.
http://gothamist.com/2012/02/24/7_of_nyc_suicides_are_subway-relate.php

It is very difficult to get or own a gun in NYC and the percentage of gun-inflicted suicides in NYC is very low, just 12% compared to 51% nationally.

Yes, I agree with you. Restricting guns will lower the suicide rate.

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Ryan Freel Commits Suicide: REPORTS [View all] SunSeeker Dec 2012 OP

Rec based upon your comments Bozita Dec 2012 #1

All of us? AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #2

Well, all of us get depressed at some point, except for you apparently. SunSeeker Dec 2012 #5

There is a difference between AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #9

Do not trivialize the reasons that flit across your mind. Depression to the point of suicide libdem4life Dec 2012 #24

That's WHAT I SAID. AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #34

Didnt get the correlation lilke that...sorry. libdem4life Dec 2012 #36

You Want to Quibble over Suicide? dballance Dec 2012 #8

It is, to the best of my knowledge, not a clinically accurate statement. AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #10

90% of suicide attempts by gun are successful BainsBane Dec 2012 #13

Yes, the only people I know who committed suicide successfully, Liberal_in_LA Dec 2012 #16

..and it breaks down over gender...don't have the actual statistics, but women generally libdem4life Dec 2012 #25

No shit. AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #35

Yet you called a post BainsBane Dec 2012 #42

When I responded to him... AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #44

It wasn't a clinical statement. It was an empathetic generalization. grantcart Dec 2012 #37

Actually, I have contingency plans for that. AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #40

I think he would have found another way IDoMath Dec 2012 #3

How do you know he would have found another way? SunSeeker Dec 2012 #4

'successfully' AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #11

Actually statistics do not bear that assumption out. grantcart Dec 2012 #38

I've never been there. MrSlayer Dec 2012 #6

I'm talking about depression, not suicide attempts. SunSeeker Dec 2012 #7

I read your 'all of us have been there' AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #12

I've been there. geomon666 Dec 2012 #14

With a gun in the house you are 7 times more likely to be a gunshot victim rightsideout Dec 2012 #15

Angry controllers RVN VET Dec 2012 #18

Brutal story. SunSeeker Dec 2012 #26

Your comment is very important Sanity Claws Dec 2012 #17

No. We have not all "been there." marble falls Dec 2012 #19

Same here libodem Dec 2012 #20

Years ago, my sister committed suicide. plethoro Dec 2012 #21

Anyone who has lived through a friend or family member with serious mental problems, agrees libdem4life Dec 2012 #29

Yes, near catatonic. That's how she was in the end. Would just lie plethoro Dec 2012 #33

not always guns nightbloomer Dec 2012 #22

Didn't say it was. But having a gun in the house makes suicide over 5 times more likely. SunSeeker Dec 2012 #31

My brother-in-law, who owned several guns, hanged himself. Throd Dec 2012 #23

Sorry to hear that. I am guessing that he did it in a way that the process could not be reversed grantcart Dec 2012 #41

But wouldn't he have tried something else like jumping off a bridge or crashing his car? alp227 Dec 2012 #27

Bridge jumpers or car crashers are not certain of death, at least instant death. libdem4life Dec 2012 #30

my dad shot himself in the head and lived for six days Skittles Dec 2012 #43

I am so sorry. Can not imagine. libdem4life Dec 2012 #45

Having a gun in the home far increases the likelihood of using it to kill yourself. Zoeisright Dec 2012 #32

Country singer Faron Young late one night years ago did this graham4anything Dec 2012 #28

Lot of gun deaths in professional sports these days. Aristus Dec 2012 #39