Seriously? the best quote on this was a guy down in the comments section.

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jon

Friday, 18 September, 2009 19:18 [ 7 ]

 

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Did you see the chart the anti-gunner used?

 

 

One would assume, based on that chart that the USA has zillions of suicides and Japan has none.

 

By the way, the Red bars are suicides by guns and the yellow bars are households with guns.

yeah you'd think in today's day and age that people would not be so ignorant or agenda driven to forgo such information of total number of suicides. http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suiciderates/en/

Exactly right. Japan has the highest rate of Suicide, I believe in the world.

 

14.1 per 100k

 

The United States

4.4

 

Switzerland

10.0

 

You wouldn't know it from that chart.

Exactly right. Japan has the highest rate of Suicide, I believe in the world.

 

14.1 per 100k

 

The United States

4.4

 

Switzerland

10.0

 

You wouldn't know it from that chart.

 

You've got your #'s a little skewed, but the point is the same. The #'s you quoted are for females only. When you add the males, it's more like 50.6 for Japan, 21.7 for US and 36.5 for Swiss (per 100k).

 

In fact, of the WHO list, we're #57 out of 100 (higher the ranking, higher the # of suicides). The countries with more suicides than us include Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Sweden.

 

Oh, and highest, at least according to the WHO list, is Lithuania with 91.7/100k. Japan took 90th place.