Guns and Suicide

The sound you just heard was another anti-gun argument crumbling. Steven Chapman discusses the relationship between gun ownership and suicide.

As it turns out, the claims about guns and suicide don't stand up well to
scrutiny. A 2004 report by the National Academy of Sciences was doubtful, noting
that the alleged association is small and may be illusory.
Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck says there are at least 13 published studies finding no meaningful connection between the rate of firearms and the rate of suicides. The consensus of experts, he says, is that an increase in gun
ownership doesn't raise the number of people who kill themselves—only the number
who do it with a gun.