Reply #30: Suicides decreasing by 250 per annum is statistically not very significant...

[S_B_Jackson]

and is probably more due to the increased public awareness of the issue of depression and suicide than it has to do with a lack of guns.

All that has really changed is the manner that depressed individuals choose to commit suicide. So tell us, Mikey, is someone who hangs themself, who takes an overdose of medication, who leaps from a bridge, or who deliberately drives their automobile into a tree or bridge abutment LESS DEAD than if they'd used a gun?