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Male Suicide Rate 5X Female Suicide Rate

• If the male suicide rate had been equal to the female suicide rate, 670,000 fewer men would have committed suicide since 1959.

• Congress stood idly by as the male suicide rate increased by a quarter, while the female rate decreased a third.

• The male rate is now five times higher than the female rate (20/100K vs. 4/100K).

• The US male suicide rate is higher than the suicide rate of every country but Denmark.

• If no action is taken, and if the current trends continue, another 730,000 EXTRA men will commit suicide over the next 3 decades.

According to the National Center for Health Statistics' "Suicides by Age, Race, and Sex, 1994", the rate of male suicides per 100,000 males increased from 16 in 1961 to 20 last year, a 25% increase, while the female suicide rate decreased by 33%, from 6 to 4. Where the male suicide rate was already 2.6 times higher than the female's rate, it is now 5 times higher. 5,603 more men committed suicide last year, and 87,934 additional men have committed suicide since 1961, than if the male suicide rate had just remained constant at its 1961 level. At a time when "equal protection" was becoming a byword, and at a time when the courts and Congress could have and should have (but didn't) consider why men were committing suicide at a rate already more than twice that of women, the Supreme (as Congress sat idly by and watched) single-mindedly undermined family unity and made an already existing serious problem even worse.

With a male suicide rate five times that of women, a male homicide rate 5 times that of women, with men constituting 94.5% of a prison population (which quadrupled in just 3 decades and is now 1.8 times the rate of incarceration of Canadian men), knowing that men are acquitted one fifth as often and receive prison sentences 3 time longer than women for the same crime, with fathers "winning custody" of less than 4% of their children of divorce, Congress has failed to act responsibly with regard to fatherhood and family stability. Apparently Congress can be relied upon to continue to fail to act responsibly on behalf of family stability. Conversely, it ignored this massive anti-male, anti-father, anti-family discrimination and provided billions of dollars of funding for VAWA (Violence Against Women Act), which every politician must know, or must be made aware, will do nothing less than extend and exacerbate the social pathology.

The nation with the once world's highest standard of living, which now has a federal budget of $1.8 Trillion, with more government employees than manufacturing employees, had the resources then (and still has the resources now) to have been able to have understood and headed off the problem in 1961. Had the male suicide rate been reduced to a level equivalent to that of females in that year, there would have been 21,599 fewer male suicides last year, and 573,307 fewer male suicides over the last 36 years. In other words, our failure to act responsibly as a nation cost us almost twice as many lives as the total number of American battle deaths occurring during World War II (573,307 additional suicides, versus 292,131 W.W.II battle deaths). In terms of lives lost, as well as their economic impacts, it is a more important issue than World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War combined (US Department of Defense) costing $21.6 Billion annually and $573.3 Billion over the last 3 decades.

"Liberals" blame our high male suicide rate on the 230 million firearms in the US.  Per capita ownership of firearms decreased as the male suicide rate increased--to one suicide per 7,100 firearms.

FACTS YOUR GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW

GUN CONTROL AND SUICIDE

  Guns in the Medical Literature,Suter, Med. Ass'n of Georgia, Vol 83, 1994 http://teapot.usask.ca/cdn-firearms/Suter/med-lit.html

The degree of restriction on civilian ownership of firearms does not in general correlate with the suicide rate.

Only by carefully selecting data can that appearance be given.

The Scandinavian Countries all have the same high level of restriction have a suicide rate which varies from 13.3 to 31.6, higher to double that of Australia.

Japan which has practically no privately owned firearms has a suicide rate of 14.3, higher than Australia, Canada or even the USA.

Israel on the other hand where any citizen of good character may be permitted to carry a loaded firearm at all times has a suicide rate of 6.0, half that of Australia.

Government's phobic preoccupation with firearms is an inadequate and ineffective response to the grave social problem of suicide.