Reply #10: Interesting, but of no use.

[visigoth]

Apart from the obvious way that children are defined, this article doesn't really tell us anything useful unless. Homicide and suicide are not the same thing and are not related. They are only associated in this case due to the tool used to accomplish each.

The writers want us to accept two assumptions that are common in the anti camp, particularity with the public health crowd. First, that all firearms related deaths and injuries are basically equivalent, that they are the same problem. Second, that guns cause people to do things they'd otherwise never consider doing, that somehow access to a firearm results in people forming suicidal or homicidal intent independent of any other factors.