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In reply to the discussion: Study: More Guns Lead To More Suicides [View all]hughee99
(16,113 posts)would also have the highest suicides rates, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country
Excluding Greenland because of a small sample size, South Korea leads the world with 31 suicides per 100,000 people, and yet they're 149th in the world in gun ownership at 1.1 per 100 people (the US has 89 guns per 100 people, by comparison).
Okay, one country is a statistical aberration, lets look further.
Lithuania is #3 in suicide rate at 31 per 100k people. Gun ownership is 160th in the world at .06 per 100 people.
Guyana is #4 in suicides and 45th in gun ownership.
Kazakhstan is #5 in suicides and 142nd in gun ownership
Belarus is #6 in suicides and 79th in gun ownership
China is #7 in suicides and 102 in gun ownership
Slovenia is #8 in suicides and 47 in gun ownership
Hungary is #9 in suicides and 93 in gun ownership
Japan is #10 in suicides and 164 in gun ownership
Okay, maybe the correlation isn't as clear as they think, or maybe there are significant other factors that have much more of an impact than gun ownership does.