Only 20% of suicide attempts in gun owning households are with firearms, but 75% of their suicides are firearm suicides

This article combines six known “facts” about suicide (e.g., households with firearms are at approximately 3 times the risk of suicide as households without firearms) to reach six estimates not currently available in the literature on suicide and guns such as:  gun-owning households account for about 90% of all firearm suicides; some 75% of their suicides are firearm suicides but only 20% of their suicide attempts are with firearms.  Among non-owning households, only 1% of their suicide attempts are with firearms, but firearms account for 10% of their suicides.  The reasonableness of these results provide support for the reasonableness of the half-dozen known “facts’ about firearms and suicide.  The article, “Comparing gun-owning vs non-owning households in terms of firearm and non-firearm suicide and suicide attempts” appears in Preventive Medicine 2018 epub ahead of publication.