Suicide rates in the US are highest among elderly men, and most involve guns, CDC report says | CNN
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The suicide rate in the United States spiked in 2021, reversing two years of decline, and rates among older men were especially high, a new report says.

Senior men have higher rates of suicide than average, and firearms were involved in more than three-quarters of those deaths in 2021, according to a CDC report

  • SupraMario@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Are you blind or trolling? Cause the wiki link %100 shows Japan with a higher rate than the USA. I brought up Japan because you claimed our suicide rate was high because of guns…which isn’t why we have a high rate. I’m also not the one trying to conflate guns as the reason for high suicide numbers…

    • ABCDE@lemmy.world
      12·
      1 year ago

      I have provided the link and quoted the numbers. Stop fucking around because it’s really boring.

      Access to guns certainly makes the suicide rate high. There are other reasons for other countries having higher rates.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        No it does not. Tons of countries where no one has access to firearms still have high suicide rates. You don’t seem to be able to understand statistics.

        • ABCDE@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          You couldn’t read basic stats from a Wiki page so what are you on about?

          Compare similar countries, such as Canada, the UK, EU nations, and other similar OECD nations.