>I realize it quickly becomes silly when you talk about banning everything that might possibly kill someone. If there is one thing humans have proven, it's ingenuity. Still, guns are unsurpassed in their ability to kill someone at a moment's notice. Bang!, and a second later it's over.
Yep. I was just reading in today's paper about guns in the home and suicide. Seems the suicide rate is way, way higher in homes with guns. Also (for those who talk about how you can kill yourself without a gun), the success rate of suicide attempts is 90% with a gun, and IIRC, 2% with drugs.
The most interesting thing in the article was that more than half of all gun deaths are suicides. Definite concern, I'd think, for those keeping guns in their homes with their kids.
This looks like the article I saw:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hCxcKGSQ7r7ORZNySqR3F0kP5rOgD91KMM180Tamar
