Re: Guns cause suicide?

While I was fishing in the dull canal, Karl Hungus crept
softly through the vegetation, mumbling - 

> 
> "Carl Nisarel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in


>> Suicide isn't 'means independent'. Suicides generally are
>> impulsive acts and since guns are more effective, using a
>> gun is more likely to lead to a successful suicide. The
>> general literature on suicides does not support the
>> 'method substitution theory'
> 
> Then kindly explain gun-free Japan's higher rate of
> suicide. 

What happens in Japan is not an argument for method
substitution. You are trying to pretend that the underlying
causes of suicide are homogeneous and due to a single
variable. 

The research and literature goes strongly against your
position and you've produced none to support it. 


-- 
Argumentum ad ignorantiam
Examples: Since you cannot prove that ghosts do not exist,
they must exist. Stephen Downes Guide to the Logical
Fallacies