>>I think if there'd been no guns in his house, he'd likely be alive today.
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>The gun didn't kill him. He killed him.

Correct, but the gun made it easy. Without the gun, he'd have had to do something either more difficult (like cutting his wrists) and/or slower (like pills). In either case, there's much more chance he'd either have stopped himself or been stopped by someone else.

Tamar