[flashbunny]

For the moron who wrote this:

1. If they can't use a gun to kill themselves, they'll find another way. Look at japan - they have a higher suicide rate than the US and they outlaw guns completely.

2. The $82 million program inspired by this senator won't make one damn bit of difference either way in the suicide rate of teens. All it will do is spend $82 million of tax dollars that people could otherwise have to spend on their families.

Sorry about the congressman's loss, but spending taxpayer money as a way to deal with your personal grief accomplishes nothing.

[Travis McGee]

Ah yes, the 'rats at the NYT would like any guns we are allowed to keep to be triple-locked in govt approved safes. Subject to govt inspection, of course. That will make them very useful when the glass crashes in at 3AM.

No thanks.

[neverdem]

Aside from suicide, I'm interested in homicide rates in other countries. IIRC, Larry Pratt said on Hardball in the late 1990s that the Mexican homicide rate, where firearms are prohibited, and most homicides were committed with knives, was greater that the U.S. rate of homicides by firearms. I tried to google the subject to no avail.