US homicide rates not related to guns are still higher than homicide rates in the UK.
IF you were so weak as to not know how to use a weapon of any kind, while a HUGE cross section of the population can well defend themselves even with sticks and sling shots and garden tools, why would you NOT end your own life?
I could invite every one of them to a seminar where I teach them how to defend "oneself" with a garden rake or a spatula or a book or a pen or any small tool in hand or how to make anything nearby into a nearly deadly weapon.
Otherwise they can face the music.
(OK, maybe it would be a little of a stretch to turn a book into a deadly weapon, especially a paperback, but knowing that you can use the spine of even a paperback to stun significantly an attacker while you make your getaway is kind of important thing to know. And a pen is nothing short of absolutely deadly, if you are threatened.)