Tell that to the Japanese who have higher suicide rates than we do, and only their criminals and police have guns....you doofus..
The Japanese have a culture that see suicide as honorable and even expected if you have brought disgrace on your family. Not comparable at all.
Am I mistaken, or did even that “2.7” claim still count guns brought into a home by a criminal, to attack the rightful occupants of that home, as a “gun in the home”?
Naw, man, you are mistaken.
Kellerman found that for every bad guy shot by a gun owner, there were 39 suicides, 3.5 homicides and 0.5 accidental deaths from guns in the home. In short, the gun made things worse, not better.
Now, yeah, in some of those cases, the family member might have found some other way to commit suicide, the wife might have still brained her husband with a frying pan, or the accident prone idiot might have still found another way to remove himself from the Gene Pool. But by that same token, the homeowner could have dispatched the bad guy with a baseball bat or golf club.