On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:03:26 -0700 (Seattle), in talk.politics.guns
Jeff-Relf.Me @. wrote:

Sure, countries with more guns have more gun related deaths;
but, don't forget, two thirds of them are suicides,
86% of which are male, usually 45+ years old.

Something over half of them are self-inflicted; we don't know exactly
how many of these are suicides and how many are just people playing
with their guns and manage to shoot themselves. About 30% are
obviously suicide; the rest, we don't know.

We don't know what they'd do if they didn't have a gun. Your guess is
as good as anyone else's.