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Re:Geographic ‘hot spots’ for cigarette and firearm deaths i... by fbdab103 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @06:58PM (#37550176)
Given suicide is relatively rare, I am wondering if this might be an artifact of low absolute population?
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Re:Geographic ‘hot spots’ for cigarette and firearm deaths i... by ianai on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:03PM (#37550221)
Yes, rural Nevada is a whole other level of barren. That big “county” in the center is federal land with almost no (maybe none at all?) population.

Also this is just firearm suicide. Maybe more enlightening with a general suicide from any cause indicator.

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Re:Geographic ‘hot spots’ for cigarette and firearm deaths i... by fbdab103 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @08:01PM (#37550655)
Apparently 55% of suicides are by firearms, 29% by hanging/suffocation, so guns do represent the majority[0].

[0] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.9550...

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Re:Geographic ‘hot spots’ for cigarette and firearm deaths i... by Perceval on Monday September 18, 2023 @09:28AM (#37555804)
Yes, it jumps out that a lot of the county-level, patchwork pattern exhibited in the firearm-suicide data may be an artifact of the very low populations in many of those Western counties: https://medium.com/@uwdata/surprise-maps-showing-the-unexpec...
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