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Guns in homes strongly associated with higher rates of suicide

In the first nationally representative study to examine the relationship between survey measures of household firearm ownership and state level rates of suicide in the US, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health found that suicide rates among children, women and men of all ages are higher in states where more households have guns.

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