If someone is hell bent on ending it all a firearm is just the easiest tool to use,
Meh, suicide and its many methods are never as simple as they initially sound when it comes to pulling it off. While a firearm seems easy to do it with, if you don’t know how to use a firearm properly, there are actually many chances that you’ll fuck up, seriously injure yourself and end up as a vegetable. There’s also the fact that humans are very resilient, and even a shot to the head isn’t guaranteed death.
Anyways if I wanted to kill myself, unless I had a magnum or something even police officers aren’t allowed to carry, I would never kill myself with a gun, not even a rifle or a shotgun.
Not related at all to your question, but you saying that gun suicide is the easiest way, I could not let that go. :p
But yes it is considered gun violence. Although my guess is, statistically speaking, they probably have sub lists…like gun murders will not be included alongside gun suicides. I know it’s considered gun violence, but I don’t know if, when they make lists of how many people die a year in a place due to shootings, if suicides are included. (my guess is suicides themselves have their own list, as in, how many people killed themselves in a year in one place)