Gun-Prevalence And Suicide

Estimates of the impact of gun prevalence on violence rates can be found in Table III in the penultimate row of each column referring to a violence rate. For example, the LSD coefficient estimating the impact of gun prevalence on the total murder rate is a non significant -0.283
(column 2 in A).
Gun prevalence had an apparent significant positive effect on total rates of suicide, but not on any of the other five types of violence. The apparent effect of gun prevalence on suicide rates, however, is not entirely stable, being evident only when the suicide models were estimated with
OLS. Some would argue that high suicide rates could discourage gun acquisition among people living in households with a person they believed to be suicide-prone. If this were true, then gun prevalence should be treated
When gun prevalence was treated as endogenous, and the model was estimated with LSD, the results indicated no significant impact of gun prevalence on suicide. We tentatively conclude that gun prevalence rates may increase total suicide rates but have no effect on total rates of homicide, robbery, aggravated assault, rape, or fatal gun