People who committed suicide by firearm were less likely to seek treatment and have previous suicide attempts, yet more likely to reveal their thoughts and plans, compared with others who took their own life.
“Those who die by firearm are thought to represent a unique subset of decedents who differ from other decedents who die by suicide on a number of variables,” Allison E. Bond, MA, of the department of psychology at Rutgers University, and colleagues wrote in JAMA Network Open
“Research has shown that those who identify with gun culture often also identify with traditional