Gun interests WANT criminals to have guns

[truebluegreen]

87. OK. I appreciate your response.

I don't care if you support legalization or not. I said clean up your own problems instead of pushing them off on others. If stopping the supply doesn't work (and after 40 years you should be able to admit that it doesn't) then work on demand. Look to Portugal if you want some pointers (they decriminalized, not legalized, and it worked). If you get your problems under control, we will have a much easier time with ours, which are many. Instead we are all doing the reverse.

Second, there are plenty of studies that show the most efficient method of suicide is by gun. When suicide is more difficult and/or less effective, the rate drops. Look to Australia for changes after they tightened up gun control, particularly teen suicides.

Finally, stop trying to compare Mexico to the US. They are not analogous. Particularly, don't assume anything about suicides by gun here (I know you didn't), the number is vanishingly small since--as you say--citizens can't own guns.

BTW, looks like my numbers were right on, weren't they? 30,460 gun deaths in the US in 2010, not counting accidents. Leaving Mexico out of it--our troubles are our own--what do you suggest to fix this?