Mere presence of firearms increases suicide

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Mere presence of firearms increases suicide

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That's right - we aren't talking about guns being used in suicides or even the rate of suicides committed with guns as opposed to other forms of suicide. This latest "study" has found that the mere presence of a firearm increases the number of suicides.

And not just any suicides, but youth suicides. (Won't somebody please think of the children?)
Suicide rates among U.S. children and teens have hit startling rates and a study now finds one clear predictor of youth suicide: gun ownership.

Youth suicides rates are higher in states with high gun ownership rates, a team at Boston University School of Public Health found.

“Household gun ownership was the single biggest predictor of youth suicide rate in a state,” Dr. Michael Siegel, a public health specialist at BU, told NBC News.

Siegel has been studying the relationships between gun ownership and homicide, suicide and other factors. It’s well known that people with access to a gun are far more likely to complete suicide. And some data had suggested that gun ownership in general was associated with higher suicide rates.
Admittedly, I did not read the entire journal article published in the AJPM, but I did notice this particular point:
In the falsification test, although household gun ownership was strongly related to the youth firearm-related suicide rate (regression coefficient=0.531, 95% CI=0.319, 0.742), it was not significantly related to the youth non–firearm-related suicide rate (regression coefficient=0.150, 95% CI= –0.023, 0.322).
Which, I dunno, seems to directly contradict the article's conclusions... :?
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Re: Mere presence of firearms increases suicide

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This is so much fun...here's the data, all the data, with all the standard deviations, methods and stuff nobody understands. On the other hand, here is a summary that is in direct conflict with the data's findings, but we're professionals and you're dummies. We got paid to do the work, you didn't. It isn't the data that will be considered, simply our evaluation of the data based on the desire of the people writing the check to get the study done. There we are.
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