Substitution of methods for 15-24 age group in Australia is the clear
conclusion of Figure 14 ("Youth Suicide and Self-Injury Australia," James
Harrison, Jerry Moller, Stan Bordeaux) at:
http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/pubs/bulletin15/bulletin15sup.htmlI don't have the report at hand, but this was also the conclusion of Canadian efforts to limit gun availability (moving from guns to hanging as the method of choice). The real tragedy in all this dispute over gun controls is these ineffective measures waste money that could be spent on real life saving efforts. The perversion of science by advocacy groups have so poisoned the atmosphere that it is very difficult to get accepted real science even if you could find a scientist with real integrity to do the work. It is all very sad. Phil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joseph E. Olson Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Restricting youth gun access will fail, Feds say. Last week the Minnesota Department of Health reported that 3/4 of all gun deaths in the state are the result of successful suicide attempts. Recognizing that suicide, not gun use, was the "cause" of these deaths and acknowledging that adults have many options in their determination to terminate their lives, the MDH turned to the familiar anti-gun strategy of urging efforts to keep guns away from all youth under all circumstances. Now, the federal CDC reports that the MDH recommended strategy WILL FAIL so long as rope is available. >>> Suicidal Youths Turn to Hanging Instead of Guns http://drkoop.com/template.asp?page=newsdetail&ap=93&id=1504295 A new [federal agency] report finds that suicidal young people are less likely to use firearms to take their own lives, but the survey finds little comfort in the trend because they are turning to more readily available methods. In the last decade, suffocation -- notably hanging -- has overtaken firearms as the most common way for adolescents to kill themselves, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. Among youngsters between 10 and 14 years old, suicide by suffocation occurs twice as frequently as that by a self-inflicted gunshot. Firearms were the most common method before 1997, the report found. Among those 15 to 19 years of age, suffocation suicides increased, but by 2001 firearms remained the method of choice. In other findings, the CDC reported that young people who attempted suicide were four times as likely to have been involved in a fistfight in the previous year. However, a third survey found that those who committed a school-related suicide between 1994 and 1999 had no history of fighting or otherwise getting into trouble with the police. * * * _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof
