Does it strike anyone as important that the CT shooter had Aspergers and it is often treated with...

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68. I want to save lives, guns only serve to take

lives. Suicide attempts are generally done impulsively and so surviving a suicide attempt by a fire arm is extremely low.

"The empirical evidence linking suicide risk in the United States to the presence of firearms in the home is compelling.3 There are at least a dozen U.S. case–control studies in the peer-reviewed literature, all of which have found that a gun in the home is associated with an increased risk of suicide. The increase in risk is large, typically 2 to 10 times that in homes without guns, depending on the sample population (e.g., adolescents vs. older adults) and on the way in which the firearms were stored. The association between guns in the home and the risk of suicide is due entirely to a large increase in the risk of suicide by firearm that is not counterbalanced by a reduced risk of nonfirearm suicide. Moreover, the increased risk of suicide is not explained by increased psychopathologic characteristics, suicidal ideation, or suicide attempts among members of gun-owning households."

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0805923

So ya, I want to keep guns out of certain people's hands to protect them and others.