Suicide and Guns In the Home: A New Focus

To Reduce Suicide Rates, New Focus Turns to Guns By Sabrina Tavernise.  The New York Times.  February 13, 2013.

Suicide acts with guns are far more effective than other methods of suicide with 85% fatality rate with guns and 2% with pills.  The three states with the highest gun ownership rates are the top three in suicide rate.  Nearly 20,000 of the 30,000 gun deaths in the United States in 2010 were suicides.  Most researchers say that the weight of the evidence indicates that the presence of guns in a house increases the risk of suicide.  In addition to statistics such, the article tells the story of Kameron Reichert, a teenage suicide victim and puts it in the context of national suicide prevention efforts.