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Originally Posted by spence
I think you're perhaps missing the really obvious, completely apparent and totally significant point...
While suicide is tragic, it doesn't make the masses look over their shoulders wondering if and when they're going to be involved in the next atrocity.
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I remember a few years back when gun control advocates where more open about further regulations on hand guns even to the point of banning them in whole cities or states, and at the time suicide was named as one of the important reasons for the ban. Back then, we were supposed to be horrified by the number of suicides, and the greater ease of doing so, by handguns.
Now since that notion seems to have died out, we must still find emotional reactions based on horror to keep the public pressure up against gun ownership. NO, no, we won't ban hand guns, just the scary ones.
And if you subtract the number of suicides by gun from the total number of gun deaths, the number deaths by hand gun still dwarf the number by AR types.