So. We are paranoid to worry about them confiscating our guns, are we?

[khagler]

Jorlem wrote:

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This newspaper article was shown to me, and I found some of the statistics to be very interesting.

Summary: most people who commit suicide in the US shoot themselves. That's actually been pretty widely known for decades, but it's unusual for the mainstream media to admit it--they generally like to talk about "gun deaths," ignoring both why that person died and anybody who was killed with something else. I think what you think about this fact depends on your other beliefs. The victim disarmers are generally socialists who regard suicide as destroying government property, so they think it's bad, but as I mentioned prefer to ignore it for propaganda reasons. Many other Americans are Christians, who believe that suicide is a sin. My view is that people own their own bodies, and if they want to kill themselves they have a fundamental right to do so. That said, I would prefer they do so by shooting themselves in their home than by jumping off a bridge in front of a commuter train during rush hour--it's just more considerate.
Suicide rates depend on cultural factors that really have nothing to do with the means available to commit suicide with. For example, Japan (where they go for the bridge-and-train method) has a much higher suicide rate than the US, Canada is about the same as the US, and Mexico is much lower than the US.