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On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:08:32 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:58:33 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

The number of suicides by gun might drop if it were a bit more difficult
and time consuming to buy pistols. In my state, there's a waiting period
that ends up running about 10 days from purchase to approval by the
state police. If you are suicidal and want a gun to end it and you don't
have one, you might change your mind in 10 days.


Not likely. Most people who seriously contemplate suicide, eventually
decide to do it. Japan has a much higher suicide rate than the US and
they have virtually zero firearms.


Or they could drive down to Virginia and get one at a gun show. Or, just go ask any drug dealer in
DC if they could borrow their pistol for 30 seconds.


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