There could be some variation but I think someone intent on ending their life is going to find a way. A person dealing with a mobility handicap may not be able to drive to the train tracks but might be able to get the gun out of the closet or drawer. They would probably have a way to OD.
"Over the last 50 years" how bout you look over the last 10 years instead. Almost 400 last year alone. 77 killed in the first 2 months of 2019.
My statistics were for "mass" murders by a shooter who kills 4 or more people (often times random unknown to the shooter) in one setting. Many of the 77 were done by a shooter who knew the victim and was done after an argument where alcohol was involved, may have been a revenge shooting or a gang style hit and run. It is too early to know how many of the 77 shootings will become drug related, gang style or drunken arguments where a man at a party gets in a fight then goes to his car to retrieve his pistol. Those don't qualify as mass murder. They would apply to the roughly 2000 people a year killed for no obvious reason. If we apply all 77 to that category it comes out to 462/year which would be considerably under the 2000/year figure. Probably the murder rate goes up in the summer time particularly in northern locations as people have more parties and outdoor events. We won't know for sure till the FBI puts those figures together.
My numbers are for mass shooting incidents
How would one’s life be adversely effected by the banning the sale of “assault “ weapons going forward? I’m a gun owner so I’m clearly not anti-gun, but I’ve never heard a good compelling reason why civilians need to own assault weapons (AR-15, AK-47,etc). Just curious.
Where there is geopolitical concerns to take into consideration with multinational armies from multiple sides taking part.