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With respect to your first and third paragraphs (I have no comment on the second)

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/case-...

Inherent deadliness, ease-of-use, availability, ability to abort mid-attempt. Guns score high(/low?) for all of these if you keep guns in your house.

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I hadn't seen that before. Thanks for sharing.

I'm not sure if those statistics matters for the gun control that is discussed in the US. A single-shot hunting rifle/old revolver can be used for suicide just as easily as an AR-15. The latter would be banned with many forms of proposed gun control, the former I do not see ever being banned/legislated-away in the US.

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