Guns kept in these homes are usually for self-protection purposes. Many gun owners think that by keeping a gun hidden, their child could never have access to it. But what people don t realize is that 1.2 million elementary aged, latch key children have found access to guns in their homes. This is what advocates of gun control focus on in their efforts for support in online communities. These advocates of gun control believe all gun control is needed to help deter suicides.
More people die from firearm related suicides than homicides.
On an average day, eighty-four people die from suicides in the United States, and fifty of these deaths are caused by firearms. People living in a house where a firearm is kept, are almost five times more likely to die by suicide than people who live in gun free homes. In fact, suicides by firearms rarely occur without a gun being in the home. On average, one adolescent that is between ten and fourteen years of age commits suicide with a gun every six hours in the U.S. Adolescents that are suicidal are seventy-five times more likely to commit suicide when a gun is in their home. By having more gun control, the lives of innocent people could be saved.