much more dignified but the causes of suicidal ideation mostly are the responsibility of drug and food cartels in collusion with the drug regulators.
there's a lot of ways you can screw up people's brains to make them actually seriously want to die hard enough that they actually do it.
and yeah, it's worth mentioning that the majority of gun related deaths in USA are suicides.
as in. it doesn't stimulate crime. suicide is a psych problem, not a social problem.