Re: Guns cause suicide?

Yardpilot wrote:
> 
> "Carl Nisarel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > While I was fishing in the dull canal, Joseph Lovell mumbled:
> > Carl Nisarel wrote:
> >
> >
> > > >>"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 claim of the antis is that the presence of firearms causes
> > > suicides.
> >
> > The claim is that the presence of firearms significantly increases the
> > likelihood.
> 
> These folks are placed where there are LESS guns availible to them. Their
> suicide rate is MUCH higher.
> 
> http://www.nicic.org/pubs/1995/012475.pdf

If someone want's to commit suicide, they should be allowed to. Who are
they hurting but themselves?





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