And you lost, since the number went down, significantly.The disease is all the damn guns. The symptoms are 20,000 firearm suicides and accidents each year.No, they are due to both things and one is pretty damn easy to fix, you just won't like it.The point is, that children were apparently not shooting each other or their school mates. These problems we fact today are due to society, and not to a gun.
It's easier to address the symptoms and not the disease. Of course, the disease will still kill you, but don't let that get in the way.
Take away the guns and those suicides will still happen. We've been over this before.
No, your downfall was insisting that the important number was the number of suicides BY GUN. That's not significant at all. The total number of suicides stays about the same.