Gun Suicides

The bleater/bedwetter crowd is making a big deal of "gun suicides," citing stats which show that 50%+ of suicides are committed using a gun.

Ho Hum.

To put that 50%+ into perspective, consider the following:


...data from the 1994 telephone survey (National Survey of Private Ownership of Firearms—NSPOF) indicate that just 35 percent (plus or minus 1.3 percent) of households own guns

(It may be as high as 43%.)

Hmmmm. No wonder guns are used so often. A helluvalotta people have them. (There are about 100 million privately-owned firearms in the US.)

Banning guns (or tightly restricting them) is not the same as banning suicide.

In fact, there's a ban on murder which hasn't worked out all that well, either.