Re: Guns cause suicide?

David Lentz <dlentz10@/*NOSPAM*/rochester.rr.com> wrote in
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> Some Guy wrote:
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>> "COGunWoman55" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > Interesting suicide rate chart, comparing nations:
>> > http://tinyurl.com/wk4i
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>> The old causation gambit.
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>> Of course an inanimate object doesn't cause anything. But what do you
>> think will be the difference in outcome to a suicidal person if he
>> tries a non-gun method (average 5% "success" rate) or a gun (85%
>> "success" rate). 
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>> It's common sense. The country-by-country comparison is irrelevant.
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>> Just ask  yourself, if you had a friend who had a clinically
>> depressed teenage son, and your friend asked you if he should buy a
>> gun, what would you say to him?
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>> By the say, Kleck claims there is no relationship between suicide
>> rates and gun ownership, but he had to jump through some complicated
>> statisical hoops to reach that conclusion. Again, it goes against
>> common sense. 
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> Common sense, what the above author professes to have so much of
> but which hs lacks, tells you that there various methods of
> suicide.  Some have a high probability of success and others do
> not.  If you deny a person one particular high probability
> method, a handgun, he will select another high probability
> method, say suicide by cop.
> 
> David
> 

What's it matter which method of suicide is more effective? 

Suicide is a VOLUNTARY ACT,it's the person's CHOICE.
It's really irrelevant.

-- 
Jim Yanik,NRA member
jyanik-at-kua.net