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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by DanBC on Friday September 17, 2021 @03:45AM (#28562437)
> In Switzerland a prominent argument (maybe the most prominent) of people willing to ban weapons is the amount of suicides by firearms. However suicide rates in heavily-armed Switzerland are at worst equal to those of not-heavily-armed nations such as the UK, Germany and France ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r... )

A note of gentle caution: you can't compare suicide rates across countries because there are big differences in methods of counting deaths.

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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by natmaka on Monday September 20, 2021 @11:36PM (#28601851)
True, however AFAIK this is less distorted between similar nations such as (here) the UK, Germany, France and Switzerland

Directly comparing data from Switzerland and Pakistan, Tuvalu or Rwanda is indeed too risky.

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