http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/utah-suicide-gun-laws-traffic-fatalities
In the not-so-distant future, if current trends continue, more Americans will die from gun violence than from auto accidents, but the state of Utah is wrestling with the fact that it hit that grisly benchmark a few years ago. And it's not "bad guys with guns" driving this trend; the vast majority of gun deaths in Utah for the past few years (89 percent in 2011; see chart) were people taking their own lives.
Among them was 14-year-old David Phan, who walked onto the skybridge in front of his junior-high school this past November and, in front of his schoolmates, put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. His death was one of more than an estimated 500 suicides in Utah in 2012, more than half of which likely involved a firearm. (Utah is one of only five states where gun suicides alone exceed traffic fatalities: Check out our state-by-state map.)
could it be that guns are more attractive to a suicide it's a matter of pulling a trigger and you don't even see the finger clinch, other ways require dedication to the end result any of the other ways require more involvement of the senses especially visual, nerves kick in and if you go and there's an afterlife what a memory to bring with you.
Driving fatalities, another leading cause of preventable death in Utah, hit a historic low in 2011 following a long, downward trend. But gun suicides have been rising. Utah is a pretty heavily armed state—nearly half of its residents own guns. At the same time, it is often referred to as the "most depressed state." Utah residents consume antidepressants at twice the national rate and its rate of suicide—the state's second-leading cause of death for ages 10 to 19—consistently beats the national average. Utah also leads the nation in the proportion of adults reporting suicidal thoughts.
that kinda puts a damper on those who say " they would just find another way", yeah 9mm, .45, .38, .32, .22, shotgun
all these different ways and guns win.
